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List of illustrations, diagrams, etc | ix | |
Introduction | xi | |
Comments and acknowledgements | xiii | |
Prologue | 1 | |
1 | A watchmaker turns inventor | 5 |
1 | Bucking the trend | 5 |
2 | Honing his skills | 10 |
3 | The land of opportunity | 11 |
4 | Opening the door to invention | 12 |
5 | Mergenthaler as the driving force | 18 |
6 | Portrait of an inventor | 23 |
2 | The beginning of hot metal composition in newspapers | 26 |
1 | Refining and redesigning | 26 |
2 | The syndicate moves in | 27 |
3 | In-fighting in the syndicate | 31 |
4 | Breakthrough - the prototype of the single matrix machine | 33 |
5 | The Mergenthaler Printing Company | 33 |
6 | The first Linotype is produced | 36 |
7 | The first machine goes to work | 40 |
3 | Large scale production and ensuing contention | 44 |
1 | Slipping schedules and teething troubles | 44 |
2 | Pressure to produce large numbers of Linotypes | 47 |
3 | Concerns about production and management | 49 |
4 | Reid's 1888 report and the start of strife | 51 |
5 | Mergenthaler's resignation | 53 |
6 | Production at Company factories after Mergenthaler resigned | 58 |
7 | Mergenthaler on his own again | 61 |
8 | Financing the new machine | 66 |
9 | Stilson Hutchins and selling the manufacturing rights abroad | 68 |
10 | Reid's 1889 report and resignation | 70 |
11 | Opinion | 73 |
4 | Hine takes over and Mergenthaler returns | 74 |
1 | Mergenthaler reinstated | 74 |
2 | The British Linotype Company and the American connection | 77 |
3 | General progress and production at Baltimore and Brooklyn | 80 |
4 | The Typograph and the start of litigation | 87 |
5 | Financial considerations during Hine's term of office | 92 |
6 | Comment | 96 |
5 | Dodge's rule and contention from other linecasters | 97 |
1 | Developments in the Typograph case | 97 |
2 | A short digression about justification | 101 |
3 | The Monoline | 105 |
4 | Confrontation with Dodge | 109 |
5 | Mergenthaler and Clephane | 114 |
6 | Mergenthaler | 119 |
1 | The domestic picture | 119 |
2 | Relations with his men | 121 |
3 | Comments about his creativity | 123 |
4 | About his illness | 125 |
5 | Recognition during his lifetime | 132 |
6 | His death, his will and estate | 136 |
7 | Posthumous recognition | 138 |
8 | Mergenthaler - the man | 145 |
7 | An overview of the British Linotype Company | 151 |
1 | Background to the British launch | 151 |
2 | Preparing to launch the Linotype Company | 153 |
3 | Advertising the Linotype Company in the British Press | 156 |
4 | Legal considerations in setting up the Linotype Company | 163 |
5 | Public response to the launch of the Linotype Company | 165 |
6 | Early British reactions to the Blower Linotype | 169 |
7 | Progress of The Linotype Company | 172 |
8 | The Blower Linotype in the United Kingdom | 175 |
8 | The Linotype - a technical summary | 177 |
1 | Single operator linecasting machines | 177 |
2 | The individual matrix Blower Linotype | 179 |
3 | The Square Base Linotype | 183 |
4 | The Simplex Linotype | 185 |
5 | Significant enhancements to the Linotype | 186 |
6 | Constraints on materials | 188 |
7 | Maintenance and operation of the Linotype | 190 |
9 | Facts and fancies | 193 |
1 | Contemporary comments about the Blower Linotype | 193 |
2 | Contemporary reports of the impact of the Linotype | 195 |
3 | Reminiscences of experience with early Linotypes | 202 |
4 | Nailing the myths | 205 |
5 | The last word | 212 |
10 | The Whittakers and the last Blower Linotype | 213 |
Appendices | ||
A | Selected Chronology | 219 |
B | Glossary | 224 |
C | Biographical notes | 227 |
Bibliography | 232 | |
Index | 239 |
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