[GreenKeys] Linotype

[John Nagle]

> From: Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
> To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] How Linotype Machine Works Video

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> On 5/9/2024 5:42 PM, John Spigel wrote:
>> Interesting, 34 minute long, but detailed video on the workings of a 
>> linotype typesetting machine. Something you always wanted to know. Use 
>> of teletype and tape starts at 32 minutes. You will need to skip several 
>> ads.
>> Enjoy!


That video is copied from the Internet Archive. Somebody uploaded it to
Youtube and "monetized" it.  Here's the original.

https://archive.org/details/0066_Typesetting_Linotype_02_25_45_00

It's quite good.

Amazingly, the overall design of the Merganthaler Linotype
barely changed from the 1890s to the 1970s.  It looks incredibly
clunky, especially that huge moving arm that moves the used matrices
from the casting unit up to the distributor rail to be recycled into
the magazine.

				John Nagle