Today was Heritage Park day with Mike and Kim. I have always liked the old railway cars and their collection is better than when I last went (which would have been quite some time ago).
But by far the best part of Heritage Park (and a new discovery for me) is the working Linotype machine. It is pure mechical genius. We were given a very interesting introduction and demonstration of machine by a gentleman who had trained and apprenticed for many years to be a typesetter. Invented in the 1880's, a keyboard spits individual letter moulds into a line, spaces the words, pumps molten metal into the mould to make a textblock, spits that out ready to be assembled with the other lines and sent to the press, and then re-sorts the individual letter moulds back into the top of the machine ready for re-use.
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posted: January 24 2009 02:30:35.