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    Ottmar Mergenthaler (11 May 1854 – 28 October 1899) was a German-American inventor who invented the linotype machine, the first device that could easily...
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  • -noʊ-/), a system to cast metal type in lines (linecaster) invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler. It became the world's leading manufacturer of book and newspaper...
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    of Open-Air Sports. Initially, the Mergenthaler Linotype Company was the only company (led by Ottmar Mergenthaler and eventually also James O. Clephane)...
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  • Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854–1899), German-American inventor of the Linotype machine Sara Mergenthaler (born 1979), American sports sailor Mergenthaler Linotype...
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    established in 1953 as a vocational-technical school. It is named after Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854-1899), the inventor of the Linotype typesetting machine, which...
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    Austrian politician Ottmar Liebert, German guitarist, songwriter and producer Ottmar Luscinius, German humanist Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American inventor...
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    Austro-Hungarian Field Marshall from 1871–1918, died in Mergentheim Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854–1899), inventor of the Linotype Edvard Hjelt (1855–1921), Finnish...
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    Volapük by Johann Martin Schleyer 1884–1886: Linotype machine by Ottmar Mergenthaler 1905: The Morse code distress signal SOS (  ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ )...
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    for the purpose of mechanized printing type production. In 1885 Ottmar Mergenthaler invented the Linotype machine, which cast an entire line of type...
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    time-consuming process of composition. This was eventually solved by Ottmar Mergenthaler and Tolbert Lanston who produced the Linotype and Monotype machines...
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    century saw pioneering inventions by Isaac Singer (sewing machines), Ottmar Mergenthaler (Linotype), Herman Hollerith (tabulating machine), and John Froelich...
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  • Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799) 1899 – Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)...
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    linotype machine, which was invented by a German immigrant, inventor Ottmar Mergenthaler. This technique allowed it to exceed the standard newspaper size...
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  • fearlessly tackles. When she visits its offices, she encounters Ottmar Mergenthaler, who is busy inventing the Linotype machine to automate the slow...
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    Gussie Davis, African American songwriter (born 1863). October 28 – Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (born 1854). October 30 – William H. Webb,...
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    first machine of this type was the Linotype machine, invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler. During a brief transitional period (c. 1950s–1990s), photographic...
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    German Rap artist Alexander Wehrle (born 1975), sports administrator Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854–1899), inventor of the Linotype typesetting machine, spent...
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  • invent.org/inductees/carver-mead https://www.invent.org/inductees/ottmar-mergenthaler https://www.invent.org/inductees/ralph-merkle https://www.invent...
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  • Mearsheimer – political scientist and international relations scholar Ottmar Mergenthaler – linotype inventor George Mueller – electrical engineer, headed...
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  • to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance. First published in 1865. Ottmar Mergenthaler: Inventor who has been called a second Gutenberg because of his invention...
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    Significant incidents were the invention of the hot type machine by Ottmar Mergenthaler (Linotype machine, 1886) and Tolbert Lanston (Monotype machine, 1887)...
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    Linotype" machine and provided instruction and financial backing to Ottmar Mergenthaler for the invention of the typewriter and similar mass-printing inventions...
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    first newspaper, in 1886, to use the linotype machine, invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler, which rapidly increased the speed and accuracy with which type could...
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    McCormick Ephraim McDowell Charles Follen McKim William McKinley Ottmar Mergenthaler S. Weir Mitchell Lucretia Mott Benjamin Peirce Wendell Phillips Hiram...
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  • William Caslon, John Baskerville, Alois Senefelder, Frederick Koenig, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Tolbert Lanston. Routledge & Paul. ISBN 978-90-5008-393-5. "Reviews...
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    to be buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Rochester, NY. George Ottmar Mergenthaler, WWII hero who gave his life to save his fellow soldiers. All Souls...
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    Signaling 1889 Edward Alfred Cowper Invention Writing Telegraph 1889 Ottmar Mergenthaler Engineering Linotype machine 1889 T. Hart Robertson Invention Writing...
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  • (1880–1956), journalist and social critic known as "the Sage of Baltimore" Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854–1899), inventor of Linotype machine that revolutionized the...
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  • and scholar of American English known as the "Sage of Baltimore". Ottmar Mergenthaler, an inventor who has been called a second Gutenberg because of his...
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    Mencken (1880–1956), journalist, critic, author, and essayist. Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854–1899), inventor of the Linotype. Howard S. O'Neill (1883–1966)...
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