Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-07-16
A WONDER IN MACHINERY.

\ machine that will do five times the
work of an expert type-setter, a ma
chine that will set, justify and correct
type, and print and distribute il; ma
chine that will cast its own plates and
take both proof and photograph, is a
mechanical invention that some day in
the not distant future is destined to rev.
olutionize the present system Of making
newspapers 50 far as the mechanical
department is concerned.
1t looks like huge MurchauSen tale,
but it is a positive reality and fact, and
such a machine is now in actual exist
ence. Mr.. II. NEWTON STANSBURY is
the inventor. 1t is a small concern oc-
cupying a space of only eighteen inches
high weight inches wide and seventeen
inches deep and will set any width Of
column or page. Describing it the
4mcricaR Art Printer says:
IL will do the work of five fast compos-
itOrs in setting, besides saving the time OF
distribution and saving many other things,
such as the great cost Of present plants,
the wear and tear of material now so great
All is done by the working of keys. ~
We are writing of an actual machine that
contains complete font OF type Of say
5000 characters, caps, small caps, lower
case. italics, accents, signs, etc; key
board like typewriter and simple me
chanical combination connecting the type
with the keys; facilities for correcting the
type before taking proof or typewriter
print, the tilc being ia sight Of The c0mpOSiiOr.
The KEYS Of the Stansbury machine are
PLAYED upon after the manner OF the type
writer but instead Of one letter being
stamped each time key is struck the let
terS themselves form into line, one after
the other. side by side, from left
10 right and upside round, as hand
until an entire line is set, punctuated,
spaced corrected and justified with crcn
ends the same rs in column or page mot
ragged like typewriter work.
Each line is set in duplicate, the second
line appearing at the back of the machine
precisely as il does before the eyes Of the
compOsitor in front. a print Is then taken
of the irh0le line, which is then Instantly
distributed by touching key, and you are
ready for the next line.
All this is done ny pressing the fingers
on KEYS. There is no other motive power;
no steam. no electricity There is no dirt,
no wet Everything clean, and as easy as
tvpewriting, aud takes no more room than
a typewriter The touching of keys auto
matically sets up, spaces, correctS, and
ustihes, prints and distributes the whole
line. The same method takes matriX OF
each line. and also take photograph which
can afterwards be used for etching or trans
ferring 10 stone for TYPOGRAPHY.
Such, in brief, is description of as
remarkable a mechanical invention as
ever has been made. II is considerably
in advance of the type-Setting machines
now in use I'm several newspaper cstab-
lHshmentS. This new machine type
setter does everything five times as fast,
/ if not five times as well, as human hands
can do il.
There seems actually to be no limit
10 the extent to which science and IN
ventive genius may go. All that Is
necessary. now, is a machine that will
edit the paper, gather the news, collect
the subscriptions and throw obnoxious
visitors down stairs.