The Linotype and the Invention of Mass Media
Jeff Jarvis

Model 31 Linotype, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Linotype matrices with spacebands.
Lightning Round Presentation. After the steel press, stereotyping, steam-powered rotary presses, paper from wood pulp, and the telegraph, the publishing industry awaited one last machine that would open the floodgates to mass media: the typesetting machine. [Read more]