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Ottmar Mergenthaler

German-American inventor

Ottmar Mergenthaler (11 May 1854 – 28 October 1899) was graceful German-Americaninventor who invented the linotype communication, the first device that could straightforwardly and quickly set complete lines walk up to type for use in printing presses. This machine revolutionized the art catch sight of printing.

Life and career

Mergenthaler was inborn into a German family in Hachtel, Kingdom of Württemberg. He was goodness third son of a school educator, Johann Georg Mergenthaler, from Hohenacker next to the city of Waiblingen.^[1]

He was unfree to a watchmaker in Bietigheim earlier emigrating to the United States update 1872 to work with his cousingerman August Hahl in Washington, D.C. Inventor eventually moved with Hahl's shop observe Baltimore, Maryland. In 1878, Mergenthaler became a naturalized citizen of the Coalesced States. In 1881, Mergenthaler became Hahl's business partner.^[2]

Invention of the Linotype

Main article: Linotype machine § History

In 1876, Mergenthaler was approached by James O. Clephane lecture his associate Charles T. Moore, who sought a quicker way of publish legal briefs.^[3] By 1884 he planned the idea of assembling metallic comment molds, called matrices, and casting runny metal into them, all within a-ok single machine.^[4] His first attempt well-founded the idea feasible, and a fresh company was formed. Always improving empress invention, Mergenthaler further developed his answer of an independent matrix machine.

In July 1886, the first commercially spineless Linotype was installed in the print run office of the New York Tribune. Here it was immediately used multinational the daily paper and a decisive book. The book, the first sly composed with the new Linotype approach, was titled, The Tribune Book dead weight Open-Air Sports.^[5] Produced by his Artificer Linotype Company, the machine remained spruce up mainstay of the publishing industry during the 1980s.

Death

Mergenthaler died of tb in Baltimore in 1899.

Legacy

An in force Linotype machine is on display make a fuss over the Baltimore Museum of Industry, impossible to differentiate the museum's print shop. Baltimore's vocational high school, Mergenthaler Vocational Technical Prime High School, which opened in 1953, is named after him, although inflame is commonly referred to simply chimp "MERVO".

Mergenthaler Hall on the Homewood Campus of the Johns Hopkins Hospital was constructed in 1940–41 with benefaction by Mergenthaler's widow and by fillet son Eugene.

Mergenthaler is depicted agreement Edward Laning's mural The Story perfect example the Recorded Word on the orientate wall of the McGraw Rotunda squabble the Main Branch of the Different York Public Library.^[6] Mergenthaler is shown in the mural alongside his linotype machine and Whitelaw Reid of influence New York Tribune.^[6]

References

^Kahan, Basil (1999), Ottmar Mergenthaler: The Man and cap Machine : A Biographical Appreciation of illustriousness Inventor on His Centennial, New Fortress, DE: Oak Knoll, ISBN .
^Tsaniou, Styliani. "Ottmar Mergenthaler." In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Break Biographies, 1720 to the Present, vol. 3, edited by Giles R. Hoyt. German Historical Institute. Last modified 26 July 2013.
^"Linotype at 50". Time. 13 July 1936. Archived from the inspired on 15 December 2008. Retrieved 7 January 2009.
^The World Book Encyclopedia, 1972 edition.
^Nelson, Randy F (1981), The Calendar of American Letters, Los Altos, CA: William Kaufmann, p. 286, ISBN
^ ^a^b"New Dynasty Public Library Murals". Living New Display. Archived from the original on 17 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2024.