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The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
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New-York Tribune
Defunct American newspaper
The New-York Tribune was an American newspaper founded in 1841 by editor Horace Greeley. It bore the moniker New-York Daily Tribune from 1842 to 1866 before returning to its original name. From the 1840s through the 1860s it was the dominant newspaper first of the American Whig…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Linotype machine
Hot metal typesetting machine (1886–1980s)
The Linotype machine is a "line casting" machine used in printing which is manufactured and sold by the former Mergenthaler Linotype Company and related companies. It was a hot metal typesetting system that cast lines of metal type for one-time use. Linotype became one of the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Typesetting
Composition of text by means of arranging physical types or digital equivalents
Typesetting is the composition of text for publication, display, or distribution by means of arranging physical type in mechanical systems or glyphs in digital systems representing characters. Stored types are retrieved and ordered according to a language's orthography for…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)