Type;a primer of information about the mechanical features of printing types: their sizes, font schemes, &c., with a brief description of their manufacture, (1914)
Stewart, A. A. (Alexander A.) · [Boston] Pub. by the Committee on apprentices, United typothetae and Franklin clubs of America · leaf 32
TYPE METAL 26 the matrix-plate, so that the required letter is adjusted exactly in place over the mold, while the melted metal is squirted in to form the type. The type then moves away and takes its proper place in the line, until the line is completed, when … the perforated record during composition on the keyboard. A peculiarity of Monotype composition is that, while the keyboard produces the perforated roll in the usual sequence from beginning to end of the story, the casting machine reverses the process by starting at the end of the composition and…
Type and type-founding -- United States -- Specimens
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