Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 592
osed innew relations for succeeding lines. These operations are performed by mechanism, as shown in the outlinehere presented. A is an inclined fixed magazine, containing channels in which the assortedmatrices are stored, and through which they slide, entering at the top andescaping at the foot,… … THE ART PRESERVATIVE 561 character, and also keys for quads stored in the magazine. The keys areactuated by the operator in the order in which their letters are to appear inprint. As a key is depressed, it operates the corresponding escapement, Bwhich allows a matrix to fall out of the magazine…
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