Mergenthaler

[ mur-guhn-thaw-ler; German mer-guhn-tah-luhr ]

noun

Ott·mar [ot-mahr; German awt-mahr], /ˈɒt mɑr; German ˈɔt mɑr/, 1854–99, U.S. inventor of the Linotype, born in Germany.

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Ottmar Mergenthaler worked twenty years on the development of his linotype machine, and ten years thereafter in perfecting it.
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The Mergenthaler Linotype Company has paid out twenty millions of dollars in dividends in fourteen years.
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The Mergenthaler Linotype machine appeared in crude form about 1886.
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Mr. Ottman Mergenthaler of Baltimore has been working on one for ten years and it is almost ready for us.
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In the following year, Stephens invented his electric plough, and Mergenthaler made an improvement on his linotype machine.
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