Around for a century, Linotype machines were made obsolete in the 1970s by changing technologies -- but they have not been forgotten To embark on Linotype was to embark on greatness. Linotype machines ...

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 ...

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 ...

Margaret E. Steuer (1874-1952) cracked the male stronghold of The Berkshire Eagle’s composition department in 1891 when she sat to set type by hand. The newspaper then was an eight-page weekly. Three ...

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Special to The New York Times. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print ...

When Jessie Winters moved to Las Cruces with her family in the 1960s, she would set aside her nomadic life and establish a home for the rest of her 100 years. Winters celebrated 10 decades on June 27 ...