Ottmar Mergenthaler Images

Portrait of Ottmar Mergenthaler, inventor of the Linotype machine. From: Leading American inventors, by George Iles … with fifteen portraits…

Photograph of linotype compositors at work at N.Y. World, 1909

Ottmar Mergenthaler’s first band machine of 1883. From: Leading American inventors, by George Iles … with fifteen portraits and many…

Picture of the house where Ottmar Mergenthaler was born in Hachtel, Kingdom of Württemberg. From: Otto Schlotke, Ottmar Mergenthalers Jugendjahre.…

Ottmar Mergenthaler’s first direct casting band machine of 1883 (also known as his second band machine). From: Leading American inventors,…

Ottmar Mergenthaler’s New York Tribune machine of 1886. From: Leading American inventors, by George Iles … with fifteen portraits and…

Illustration of the New York Tribune Linotype machine in use at the newspaper. From: “A Machine to Supersede Typesetting,” Scientific…

Photograph of Washington Post owner Stilson Hutchins, c. 1865-80

Undated photograph of New York Tribune publisher Whitelaw Reid.

Photograph of Mergenthaler Vocational Technical High School, also known as “Mervo,” at 3500 Hillen Road in Baltimore, Maryland. The school…