People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — Saw The Type-setting Machine. [ARTICLE]

Saw The Type-setting Machine.

Bernie Maloy of the Republican printery and Charlie Noble of the Pilot force paid Chicago a flying visit Sunday, taking in the marvels of the new type setting machines in the Inter Ocean. These new inventions have in 2 years displaced 70,000 compositors in the whole country, as each machine is capable of doing the work of five or six men. The “Lineotype” is composed of 4,200 pieces, and though apparently complicated it seems endowed with human intelligence, so marvelous is the work it perforins. By its use the cost of type-set-ting jias been reduced from 45c per thousand ems to a trifle more than 10c. Though these machines now cost 11,000, it will be but a few years, w’hen offices such as the Pilot will find it economy to own one.