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 ...

Because the Linotype was patented in 1884 by Ottmar Mergenthaler, it could not have been the Star Democrat's first printing press. But as current Star Democrat pressman Joey Smith scanned the old ...

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Clephane's history of the linotype -- Linotype's early years : great expectations and unforeseen betrayals -- Mackey's 1936 history of the Linotype Company -- Mergenthaler's linotype machines, ...

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 ...