Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts. A book for old and young (1860)
Timbs, John, 1801-1875 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 39
Old Printer and Modern Press, 1854. B2 34 TYPE-CASTING. berg Society, to which all the writers of the Rhenishprovinces belong, hold a yearly meeting also in Mentz, tohonor the memory of the first printer, and to celebratehis discovery. It is hard to apportion the share of honor to whicheach of the… … Casting the T}T)e. in metals, and his large pecuniary resources, would read-ily provide the necessary appliances; and the entire con-ception and execution of the casting of type is given toSchoeffer. The only evidence shows that the partnershad for some time taken casts of types in moulds of…
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