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Nostalgia for the dying craft of hand typesetting
Original: When I was in junior high, one of the shop classes involved typesetting with old-fashioned movable type. More recently I
A writer recalls learning movable type in a junior high shop class and recommends "Twilight of the Velocipede," an account of typesetting races in the final years before Linotype machines displaced hand composition. The piece is drawing attention as a window on a vanished trade, when speed competitions tested compositors and mechanical printing was about to end an era of manual letterpress work.
Why now: People are reminiscing about obsolete printing crafts and the history of typesetting technology.
Linotypemovable typeTwilight of the Velocipede
Evidence
- When I was in junior high, one of the shop classes involved typesetting with old-fashioned movable type. More recently I read "Twilight of the Velocipede," about typesetting races at the end of that age, just before Linotype machines took over. https://… · WesternInfidels@mefi.social · 2
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