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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Ottmar Mergenthaler
Ottmar Mergenthaler
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Mergenthaler, Ottmar
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1885-1886: Ottmar Mergenthaler patented and marketed...
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1885-1886
Ottmar Mergenthaler
patented and marketed Linotype™, the first successful mechanical typesetting system.
1886: The New York Tribune began using Ottmar Mergenthaler's...
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1886
The
New York Tribune
began using
Ottmar Mergenthaler
's linotype setting machine; other newspapers soon followed.
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