Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. City officials unearthed a piece of history Monday when they discovered an old 1,100-pound Linotype machine in the vacant ...

The old type-setting machine I wrote about a few weeks ago drew more comments than I ever would have imagined. After all, the Linotype machine, manufactured by the Mergenthaler Linotype Co. of New ...

American inventor Thomas Edison described the linotype machine as the eighth wonder of the world when it was introduced in 1886. The technology revolutionised typesetting to make printing more ...

The linotype machine, invented in 1886 by Ottmar Mergenthaler, revolutionized typesetting and with it the newspaper industry. The machine operator used a 90-character keyboard to assemble groups of ...

Sitting behind a keyboard from the age of 15, Stewart Macdonald had to take great caution, or risk getting burnt. There are few people left who can say they have worked on a linotype machine, however ...

The short film, Farewell — ETAOIN SHRDLU, produced in 1978 covers the very last day the New York Times was set for printing in the old way, using hot metal typesetting. We’ve covered the magic of ...

The last linotype machine newspaper in America is the Saguache Crescent in Saguache, Colorado. It’s a story worth printing, although publisher Dean Combs doesn’t need to. News outlets from around the ...

For this week’s Retrotechtacular we’re looking at Linotype Machines; mechanical marvels that brought about the mass production of printed media. It was a cold dreary day in 1876, when a German ...

For more than a year one small, daily newspaper on Boston's South Shore has used in its regular operations one of the most revolutionary innovations in the printing business in the past 75 years. The ...

City officials unearthed a piece of history Monday when they discovered an old 1,100-pound Linotype machine in the vacant Higginbotham Printing building that was being demolished by city crews. Like ...