Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype
publicdomainreview.org43 points by benbreen a day ago
43 points by benbreen a day ago
Any mention of typesetting should work to include Mark Twain's quote about his relationship with the inventor James Paige, who worked on a never quite working as well as could be wished typesetting machine that Twain invested heavily in.
"Paige and I always meet on effusively affectionate terms; and yet he knows perfectly well that if I had his nuts in a steel-trap I would shut out all human succor and watch that trap till he died."
From the last image:
> No Type. No Distribution. No "Pie"-ing.
> Self-spacing. Self-justifying.
Looks machine-composed.
If you mean machine-composed as in AI, I did a reverse image search and found the same image in a blog post from 2013:
https://kenjeffery.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/on-linotype-the-...
And to prove that the image wasn't tampered with recently, here's a Wayback Machine snapshot from 2019:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190823231938/https://kenjeffer...
I think it passes muster!