Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. City officials unearthed a piece of history Monday when they discovered an old 1,100-pound Linotype machine in the vacant ...

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Before digital printing, there were Linotype operators, or typesetters, who used the Linotype machine to print the written word. The machine was introduced in 1884 using hot metal blocks to imprint ...

Curtiss Hewitt “Mac” McGaffin Sr., a retired Linotype operator for The Sun who was active in affairs of Columbia Typographical Union Local 101-12, died of pneumonia Friday at his daughter’s home in ...

1886: The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use Linotype, a complex but highly efficient typesetting machine that revolutionizes the printing process. Employing a 90-character keyboard, ...

Sitting behind a keyboard from the age of 15, Stewart Macdonald had to take great caution, or risk getting burnt. There are few people left who can say they have worked on a linotype machine, however ...

Riley Leonard "R.L." Allred, a retired Tulsa World Linotype operator, died Tuesday. He was 87. A funeral service is scheduled for 1 p.m. Friday at Moore's Eastlawn Funeral Home. Allred was born March ...

The linotype machine, invented in 1886 by Ottmar Mergenthaler, revolutionized typesetting and with it the newspaper industry. The machine operator used a 90-character keyboard to assemble groups of ...