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- OBJECT TYPE
- N/A
- DATE
- 1911
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1980.0504.003
- MANUFACTURER
- Mergenthaler Linotype Co.
- MODEL
- LINOTYPE 8
- LOCATION
- New York, New York, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 28884
- Part Number
- 3
- Total Parts
- 5
- AKA
- Matrix tray
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Metal
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 4.0 cm
- Width
- 17.0 cm
- Height
- 20.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Printing
- Category
- Typesetting
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Mergenthaler
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- New York
- City
- New York
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- USED UNTIL 1980
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
AS DIRECTED BY MANUALLY OPERATED KEYBOARD, THE MACHINE AUTOMATICALLY ASSEMBLES INDIVIDUAL MATRICES, CASTS A SOLID LINE OF TYPE FROM THEM & RE-DISTRIBUTES THE MATRICES - Technical
-
INTRODUCTION OF THE LINOTYPE, 1886, REVOLUTIONIZED THE PRINTING INDUSTRY BY DRAMATICALLY INCREASING SPEED AT WHICH TYPE COULD BE SET & SO THE SPEED OF THE WHOLE PRINTING PROCESS/ MODEL 8 WAS FIRST 3 MAGAZINE LINOTYPE/ INCLUDED AUTOMATIC FOUNT DISTINGUISHER - PREVENTED MATRICES ENTERING WRONG MAGAZINE IN DISTRIBUTION - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Embossed print under side of tray "OK ON".
- Missing
- From CA of 01/24/1995 by Tony Missio: Undetermined
- Finish
- Black cast iron tray with horizontal separators. Tray holds matric collection, catalogued as .4.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Mergenthaler Linotype Co., Tray, after 1911, Artifact no. 1980.0504, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingenium.ca/en/id/1980.0504.003/
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