Being the report of the institute, through its committee on science and the arts, on the invention of Tolbert Lanston

• Book ID: 104134893
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1896
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 705 KB
• Volume: 142
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(96)90228-8

✦ Synopsis

The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, acting through its Committee on Science and the Arts, investigating the Lanston monotype machine, reports as follows:

In designing this machine the inventor had the object in view to produce individual types, set in lines of equal length, ready to be formed into columns and" locked into chases, for use as a printing surface. Instead of setting previously prepared type, as in the old type-setting machines, he selected a process of casting types in the order of their use, and of setting this type into justified lines, and the lines into a column, to be subsequently separated into pages by hand.