St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, August 30, 1896
GOLD! GOLD! MY PRECIOUS GOLD!
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The Linotype (1886) was one of the main printing techniques of the 20th century. With this machine, it was possible to produce metal lines to print, instead of doing it letter-by-letter. It didn’t use a qwerty keyboard, and there was no shift key. The keyboard was organized according to the popularity of the characters.
There is a movie about this machine, and there’s some clips from it here.
Ottmar Mergenthaler (the inventor of Linotype) and some kind of Belgian priest? Seems to have been made by art students in Ghent in the 1940s. Filip De Haes took these photos of Grafiek issue 11 and 12, published by HIGRO in the late 40s. Via.