The Linotype Machine
1.) Who is credited with the invention of the typewriter?
Christopher Sholes
2.) What is a "stenographer"?
Someone who takes notes shorthand
3.) Post an example of Shole's typewriter.
4.) Why did Sholes send a prototype of his typewriter to Clephane?
So that Clephane could test it
5.) After the typewriter began production, why did Clephane pursue another machine?
It still took a long time to typeset the words and make copies
6.) Who spent a year redesigning Clephane's typesetting machine?
Ottmar Mergenthaler
7.) What is meant by "typesetting"?
Organzing letters for use in a typing machine
8.) Post an example of Linotype Machine.
9.) How does the Linotype Machine differ from the typewriter?
It allowed type to be set mechanically rather than by hand it also produced the letters in a straight line
10.) How did this machine change the newspaper industry?
It allowed small operators to set type for more pages on a daily basis, as result newspaper and magazines could be longer in length compared to the eight pages that they used to be
11.) Post an example of a Linotype keyboard.
12.) How did the keyboard of the Linotype Machine differ from keyboards that we use today?
They keyboard had 90 characters, there was no shift key so there was different keys for upper and lowercase letters, and the letters were arranged based on frequency of use. There was three different sections of the keyboard, the right (white keys) was for uppercase letters, the left (black keys) were for lowercase letters and the middle (blue keys) were for punctuation, digits, small capital letters and fixed width spaces
13.) Post an example of a Linotype slug.
14.) What is a slug?
A single line of type or matrixes that is cast together to form one big piece
15.) Post an example of a person operating a Linotype Machine.
16.) Why is the Linotype Machine the greatest advanced in printing since movable type?
It finally bridged the gap between the typewriter and the printed page
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