History of composing machines; a complete record of the art of composing type by machinery ... also lists of patents on composing machines, American and British, chronologically arranged (1904)
Thompson, John S. (John Smith), 1872- · Chicago, Inland Printer Co · leaf 41
The automatic distributor of the Empire machine has a capacity of six thousand ems per hour, and requires the attention of a boy. The dead matter is placed on a galley and the machine lifts it, line by … EMPIRE DISTRIBUTOR. line, to the distributing channel, where the special nicks in the type allow it to be returned into a series of channels, which, when full, are removed and placed in the composing machine. THE PAIGE COMPOSITOR. Perhaps the most wonderful typesetting machine ever invented was the…
Typesetting machines
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