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The Inland printer (1883)

Chicago : Inland Printer Co. · leaf 437

An illustration from The Inland printer, 1883, leaf 437
output being small. An average speed of three thousand ems per hour is considered good work on the Typograph. Back of the key¬ board and at a higher level, is an elliptical frame strung with wires which converge in a vertical plane beneath the keyboard. At the farther end of these wires are hung… … ing device for picking up a very long line of type. It is used character on each wire. When a key is struck, the correspond¬ in connection with the Dow composing-machine for transfer¬ ing matrix bar is released and slides down the inclined wire to ring type from the distributor to the channels of…

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