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n. - United States inventor (born in Germany) of the Linotype machine (1854-1899).

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  • Mergenthaler linotype, but Mark Twain only smiled.
  • But Mergenthaler continued active, and before a second of the "Band" machines could be built, he had devised a plan for dealing with the letters by means of independent...
  • Mergenthaler was to give his services at a rate of wages considerably beyond what he was then receiving, and Hahl was to charge a reasonable price for the use of his...
  • Of the machine last described, two hundred were built, but before they were half marketed, the ingenious Mergenthaler presented a new form, which showed so great an...
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