Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854-1899) a German born inventor demonstrates his mechanical typesetting machine, the Linotype, to the editor of the New York Tribune, Whitelaw Reid who first put it to use in 1886.

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Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854-1899) a German born inventor demonstrates his mechanical typesetting machine, the Linotype, to the editor of the New York Tribune, Whitelaw Reid who first put it to use in 1886.

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