te, or, in printers’ phraseology, a “slug” bearing the characters on its edge to print a single line. The melting pot is then with¬ to the machine. The forty keys of the board communicate with the eighty drawn, the mold opens and the completed line, hard and solid, though still characters in… … hand composition the type are deposited into tin boxes which are emptied frame containing the matrices is then lilted back and the matrices slide back simultaneously by their own weight, so that the assemblage and distribution are both accomplished by gravitation. This is the simplest possible…
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