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Leading American inventors (1912)

Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York : Henry Holt and company · leaf 498

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scost less to assemble than any others produced in the shop,repeating the familiar experience that the highest pricedlabor is cheapest in the end, because the most efficient.Mergenthaler now extended his bonuses from the as-sembling-room to the manufacturing department, wherethey stimulated output… … Linotype. Tribune Machine of 1886 OTTMAR MERGENTHALER 423 and his directors gradually drifted apart. Their quarrelculminated on March 15, 1888, when, in a mood of justanger, the inventor resigned from the Companys service.Mergenthaler was a sensitive man, of highly strung nerves,and unrelenting…

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