In the 1880‘s chromolithography became a method for making multi-color prints, stemming from the process of lithography. Alois Senefelder, a german man, was given credit for his documenting of his plans to print in color one day in the book Vollstaendiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerey. Countries all over were looking for new ways to print
In 1890 the Linotype machine by OT T M A R M E R G E N T H A L A R was demonstrated in New York. By depressing keys on a keyboard the machine assembles a line of matrices from a magazine above the keyboard. This casts together the letters into one piece of metal called a “slug� by the injection of molten metal. After its use, the metal is delivered to a galley to
in color. Though disputed on being the first, GODEFROY ENGLEMANN of France was awarded the patent for the new process in July 1837.
which it is redistributed back to the magazine by the machine. It was a machine that allowed the operator to be the machinist, typesetter, justifier, typefounder, and type-distributor. Mergenthaler saw little use in seperating these functions to multiple machines, thus inspiring him to his creation.
-Godefroy Engelmann
Creators of the 19th and 20th Century
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