Ottmar Mergenthaler : The Man and His Machine: A Biographical Appreciation of the Inventor on His Centennial Book

	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