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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]