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End of an era as Linotype production ends in U S history
The transition from Linotype to electronic printing signals the end of an era in U S publishing. Since Ottmar Mergenthaler demonstrated the Linotype in 1884, the machine transformed mass newspapers and literacy, while today overseas plants still manufacture parts for existing machines.
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Linotype Machines
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Johann Gutenberg
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Paris
Mark Twain
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New York Tribune