Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-04-14
a sliding. mold, and
tically filed with

inolten % a pot at the rear.
Inc re Ig was then elected
from q Ind passed between two
trlmmll es into q receiving gal
ley us much more efficient
machn lan either of the others, but
II was Zoo slow to be practical.
Machines Finally on Market
Before a second Band Machine
could be hpilt, Mergenthaler had de-
vised a plan for employing Independent
matrices instead Of bands. These mat
rlces We're stored in a series OF verti-
teal copper tubes, which gave the ma
chine the appearance of a dlmlnutlve
pipe organ. From the bases OF these
tubes the matrices were drawn as re-
quired by mechanism operated by I'm
ger keys, were caught by the ears.
as they dropped upon miniature rail
way, and we're carried by blast OF
air to the assembling point. Wedged
spacers were dropped in between type
groups, and the line was carried to the
front of the mold, where justification
and casting took place. The result
ant slug then was elected and trimmed
as on the Band Machine" the mat
rices iii the assembled line were auto
n1atically returned to the magazine,
and the spacers automatically re-
turned to their point of rest. This
machine, which was known at first as
! the Blower" was immddS ately rec
ognized as a practical machine, and at
once two hundred duplicate machines
were manufactured and placed on the
market,
The first of these was installed in
the composing room Of the New York
Tribune in July, 1886, and to White
law Reid belongs the distinction OF hav-
ing created the name linotype
introduced Whole Type Line
The machine which was thus at last
successfully introduced revotut1onlzed
printing because it abolished at one
stroke the troubles Of individual nova
bic type. 1T introduced the whole line
as a unit of composition, thus reduc-
ing the printers labor to an astonlsh-
ing degree Tt gave the art the vast
economy OF automatically llnd instant
| ly producing by keyboard solid lines
of composed and justified d'pe to be
: used oks6e and then melted down to be
used over again in the machine,
Perhaps no one thing has been so
valuable in the spreading of enlight-
enment throughout the world as the
Linoty5e, because the Linotype has
made possible the publication Of ev-.
cry sort of literature, and cheapened
it's prize to an extent undreamed of
half century ago. Linotype matrices
may now be. had for fifty different lam
gaageS and American-built Iinotypes
Eare in use In sixty-three different c0un-
tries
Badly Learned In Orient
LATHE difficulty, is encountered in
teaching the natives of any section to
operate and look after the Linotype.
The natural ingenuity of the Eastern
races enables them TO learn the rum
ming of the machine with ease. And
i the moisture and heat of tropical coun-
tries are not. serious handicaps in the
use of Linotypes. at the equator,
with an average humidity of nearly
ninety per cent, Linotypes are run
ming to advantage and with no greater
/ amount of care than that required in
more temperate zones.
Used All Over the World
In Ja4an three English newspapers
are produced on the Linotype by ma
tive operators. In China twenty job
offices and newspapers use the ma
chimes. India has over two hundred
Linotyt les, nearly all operated by ma
Z! tives, Iaany of whom have only slight
/ knowledge of mechanical principles,
j and of the English language. Limo
types aft in use in Manaos, Brazil, a
thousand miles from the mouth of the
Amazon river: in La Paz, Bolivia,
more than 1900 feet above sea level !;