Mergenthaler
[mur-guh n-thaw-ler; German mer-guh n-tah-luh r]
- 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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The Mergenthaler, in particular, was attracting wide attention.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, CompleteAlbert Bigelow Paine
Whitney and Cameron, he said, were large stockholders in the Mergenthaler.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, CompleteAlbert Bigelow Paine
The Mergenthaler Linotype Company has paid out twenty millions of dollars in dividends in fourteen years.
How to Succeed as an InventorGoodwin B. Smith
The Mergenthaler Linotype machine sets and casts type in the form of solid lines.
Historic InventionsRupert S. Holland
It was the Mergenthaler Linotype machine, which automatically formed its own type by casting a whole line of it at a time.
The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.Edward W. Byrn