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The Mergenthaler Linotype Company is a corporation founded in the United States in 1886 to market the Linotype machine (/ ˈ l aɪ n ə ˌ t aɪ p,-n oʊ-/), a system to cast metal type in lines (linecaster) invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.
Jun 8, 2022 · Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German immigrant in Baltimore, Maryland, is the man most closely associated with the linotype. An engineer by trade and a clockmaker by experience, Mergenthaler was part of the team that was contracted in 1876 to invent a copying machine to speed up the work of court stenographer.
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Jul 20, 2015 · Baltimore, Maryland, is well known as the birthplace of the typesetting machine that revolutionized publishing: the Linotype, invented by German immigrant Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1886.
May 31, 2018 · Linotype refers to a machine, power-driven, and manually-operated, that produces composed type on metal bars called slugs. Created and sold by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, its first operation began in 1886 at the New York Herald Tribune.
Feb 6, 2020 · A true visionary and a pioneer in communication, Ottmar Mergenthaler revolutionized the art of printing with the Linotype machine. Prior to his invention, no newspaper in the world had more than eight pages.
Jul 3, 2021 · On July 3, 1886, the first Linotype machine invented by German inventor Ottmar Mergenthaler commenced operation for the New York Tribune. The Linotype was the first device that could easily and quickly set complete lines of type for use in printing presses and revolutionized the art of printing.
