Tolbert Lanston and the monotype the origin of digital typesetting

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adam_text Contents Preface ..........................xi Acknowledgements ...................xiii Chapter ι: Typesetting Before Mechanization .......... ι Chapter 2: Issues Confronting The LanśTon Machine ......7 The Mold ..........................7 The Matrix .........................8 Assembling Functions ...................9 Fixing The Dimensions Of Type ............10 Creating A Unit System .................10 The Wedges ........................11 The Keyboard ......................12 Chapter 3: Tolbert LanśTon: The Man With An Idea ......15 Inventive Minds And A Patent Examiner .......16 Why Did LanśTon Become Concerned With Typesetting? ...........18 No Mechanical Education Whatever ..........18 Undaunted By Disastrous Fire .............19 Confused State Of The Typesetting Industry .....19 A Visit To Lanśtons Washington Shop .........20 No Interaction With Mergenthaler...........20 The Linotype Machine s Presence And Comparison . 21 Lanśton Leaves The Monotype Company .......21 Early Recognition ....................22 The Move From Washington To Philadelphia .....24 The Inventor s Personality ................24 Lanśton Lives To See Monotype s Early Success .... 26 LanśTorfs Later Years ..................27 Chapter 4: The Men Who Made Monotype A Success .....31 J. Maury Dove .......................32 John Sellers Bancroft ...................38 Harold Malcolm Duncan ................44 Sol Hess ..........................51 Other Noteworthy Figures ...............59 Chapter 5: Evolution Of The Monotype Machine ........65 Three Patents Cover The Justification Concept .... 65 Prototype 1 : A Device To Form Type From Cold Metal ..................66 The Mysterious First Keyboard ............. 6j Prototype 2: The First Hot-Metal Machine .......67 Prototype 3: The Triangle Hot-Metal Machine .....68 Prototype 4: The Quadruple Machine .........70 Prototype 5: The Limited Font Machine .......71 The Final Composition Machine — For Over Fifty Years .................73 Evolution Of The Monotype Keyboard .........74 A More Versatile, Universal Keyboard Arrangement . 76 Expanding To Become A Type Foundry ........78 Material Maker And Giant Caster ...........78 The Thompson Type Caster ..............79 Americans Fall Behind .................80 The English Supercaśter ................80 The Last Gasp: The Monomatic ............80 English Monotype Introduces Monophoto .......83 Chapter 6: Patriotism, Competition And Politics .......85 Patriotism — World War I ................85 The World War II Effort .................88 Competition — Early Casualties ............89 Converting Hand Comp Plants And Other Machine Users .............90 Politics — The U. S. Government Printing Office . . . 92 Contents (Continued) Chapter/: The Effect Of Monotype On Typography ......97 Quality Of The Product .................98 Addressing Type Design ................99 A Botched Sale To The Merrymount Press ...... 100 English Vs. American Composition Matrices .... 101 Accommodating American Users ........... 102 Other Mechanical Considerations .......... 103 American Designs For The American Market .... 105 Frederic W. Goudy ................... 106 The Deal With American Type Founders ...... 112 Designs For The Advertising Industry ........ 112 Special Matrices For Job Printers ........... 115 Catering To The Book Industry ............ 116 Monotype s Effect On The Typefounding Industry . 117 ChapterS: The Lanśton Monotype Machine Company . . . .121 The First Lanśton Company Reorganized ...... 123 Relationship With English Monotype ........ 124 The Era Of j. Maury Dove ............... 125 The Wood & Nathan Company ............ 126 The Venerable Monotype Building .......... 126 The Barrett Adding Machine ............. 128 The Twenties And Thirties .............. 129 Monotype Photo-Mechanical Equipment ...... 134 Mystery Machine Being Developed .......... 136 World War II — The Start Of LansToris Decline. ... 138 John Anderson s Perspective ............. 142 The Banknote Relationship .............. 144 Beyond United States Banknote Corporation .... 148 American Type Founders Buys Matrix Business ... 150 Hartzell Machine Works, Inc. Takes Over ...... 152 Mackenzie-Harris Acquires Matrix-Making Equipment ............ 154 The Appalling End Begins .............. 155 Postscript ........................ 150 Chapter g: Monotype Users In The U. S. A. And Canada . . .161 The Beginning Of Trade Typesetting ......... 161 Printing Plants And The Monotype ......... 168 The Newspaper Industry And Monotype ...... 172 Monotype Production For Magazines And Books . . 173 The Largest Monotype Operation In The World. . . 175 Chapter 10: Monotype In The Twenty-First Century ......183 Breakage And Wear ..................184 The Technology Of Monotype ............185 Environmental Considerations ............186 Trends In Private Typefounding ...........187 Four Examples Of Private Typecasting ........187 A New Digital Connection ..............190 Appendices ............................193 A: Charles Henry Beeler ...............193 B: Other Monotype Acquisitions ..........194 C: Diversity Of Lanśton Property ..........195 D: Goudy s Monotype Scorecard ...........196 E: Display Matrices For Individual Casting .....198 F: Configuration of Composition Matrices .....199 G: Configuration Of Large Composition Matrices . 200 H: Weighty Matters ..................201 I: Components Of The Monotype System .....202 J: Closing Tidbits ..................203 On Lanśton The Inventor .............203 A Late-Discovered Relationship .........203 Comparing English And American Matrices . . 203 A Social Aspect of Monotype ...........204 Financiais And Sales Records ..........204 What Is An Orphan Annie ? ...........205 How Much Did A Monotype Cost? ........205 The Wood & Nathan Company Revisited .... 206 K: Monotype References On The Internet .....207 Index ............................209
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