Quiz: Printing Revolutionized
Quiz: Printing Revolutionized
Books, newspapers, and other printed materials became infinitely easier to mass produce with the introduction of the linotype machine in the late 1800s.
In 1882, Ottmar Mergenthaler invented a device that would revolutionize the distribution of the printed word all over the world. Because of the linotype machine, printed goods were made both easier to reproduce and more affordable to the average consumer.
This machine, which remained in operation all the way through the 1970s, worked much like a typewriter, with an operator sitting at a keyboard that had 90 characters and input text. Inside the linotype machine, brass molds for letters or blank bands for a space would be arranged into a line of text and hot metal would create a slug that would combine to form columns of type to print upon pages.
Test your knowledge about the linotype machine and its mechanisms with this ASME quiz.
This machine, which remained in operation all the way through the 1970s, worked much like a typewriter, with an operator sitting at a keyboard that had 90 characters and input text. Inside the linotype machine, brass molds for letters or blank bands for a space would be arranged into a line of text and hot metal would create a slug that would combine to form columns of type to print upon pages.
Test your knowledge about the linotype machine and its mechanisms with this ASME quiz.
Books, newspapers, and other printed materials became infinitely easier to mass produce with the introduction of the linotype machine in the late 1800s.
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