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21 Mergenthaler, Ottmar
SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing[br]b. 11 May 1854 Hachtel, Germanyd. 28 October 1899 Baltimore, Maryland, USA[br]German/American inventor of the Linotype typesetting machine.[br]Mergenthaler came from a family of teachers, but following a mechanical bent he was apprenticed to a clockmaker. Having served his time, Mergenthaler emigrated to the USA in 1872 to avoid military service. He immediately secured work in Washington, DC, in the scientific instrument shop of August Hahl, the son of his former master. He steadily acquired a reputation for skill and ingenuity, and in 1876, when Hahl transferred his business to Baltimore, Mergenthaler went too. Soon after, they were commissioned to remedy the defects in a model of a writing machine devised by James O.Clephane of Washington. It produced print by typewriting, which was then multiplied by lithography. Mergenthaler soon corrected the defects and Clephane ordered a full-size version. This was completed in 1877 but did not work satisfactorily. Nevertheless, Mergenthaler was moved to engage in the long battle to mechanize the typesetting stage of the printing process. Clephane suggested substituting stereotyping for lithography in his device, but in spite of their keen efforts Mergenthaler and Hahl were again unsuccessful and they abandoned the project. In spare moments Mergenthaler continued his search for a typesetting machine. Late in 1883 it occurred to him to stamp matrices into type bars and to cast type metal into them in the same machine. From this idea, the Linotype machine developed and was completed by July 1884. It worked well and a patent was granted on 26 August that year, and Clephane and his associates set up the National Typographic Company of West Virginia to manufacture it. The New York Tribune ordered twelve Linotypes, and on 3 July 1886 the first of these set part of that day's issue. During the previous year the company had passed into the hands of a group of newspaper owners; increasing differences with the Board led to Mergenthaler's resignation in 1888, but he nevertheless continued to improve the machine, patenting over fifty modifications. The Linotype, together with the Monotype of Tolbert Lanston, rapidly supplanted earlier typesetting methods, and by the 1920s it reigned supreme, the former being used more for newspapers, the latter for book work.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFranklin Institute John Scott Medal, Elliott Cresson Medal.Bibliography1898, Ottmar Mergenthaler and the Invention of Linotype, New York.Further ReadingJ.Moran, 1964, The Composition of Reading Matter, London.LRD -
22 לקט
לָקַט(b. h.) ( to seize, 1) to gatter, glean; to pick, v. Pi.Part. לוֹקֵט gleaner, huckster, v. לָקוֹט. 2) (in sewing) to gather, pucker. M. Kat 26a bot. ללוֹקְטָן ולעשותן כמין סולמות to mend (the rente for the dead) by gathering or making a sort of stairs (chain-stitches), v. סוּלָּם. Pi. לִיקֵּט same, 1) to pick, harvest; to pick up, collect. Tosef.Shebi.IV, 21 לי׳ אתרוג באחדוכ׳ he harvested Ethrogs on the first of Shbat; R. Hash. 14a; Erub.7a; Yeb.15a. Tosef.R. Hash. I, 9 לי׳ ירק if one picked vegetables; a. v. fr.Mass. Sh. II, 5 מה שלי׳ לי׳וכ׳ Y. ed. (Mish. a. Bab. ed. מה שלקט לקט) what coins he picked up singly belong to the second-tithe fund. Y. ib. 53c והוא שלי׳ מיכן ומיכן אבל לי׳ על אומדוכ׳ (not אומן) provided he picked up here and there (deliberately selecting), but if he did so at random Bekh.7b כל חמטיל בצים מְלַקֵּט וב׳ every animal that lays eggs supports its brood by picking up food for it, except the bat … which gives suck.M. Kat. I, 5 מלקט אדםוכ׳ one may (during the festive week) collect for final burial the bones of, v. לִיקּוּט. Snh.VI, 6 מְלַקְּטִין את העצמותוכ׳ the bones (of the convict) may be collected and buried in their family tomb; a. fr.Esp. to glean, to take the poor mans share in the crop. Peah IV, 9 מי שלקטוכ׳ (Y. ed. שלי׳) if one gleaned the corner of the field and said, this is to belong to ; Gitt.11b; B. Mets.9b.Peah V, 6 לִלְקוֹט (Y. ed. ללַקֵּט). Y. ib. IV, 18b ילכו וִילַקְּטוּוכ׳ let them have an opportunity to go and glean in another field, v. כִּילּוּי, a. v. fr.Peah IV, 5, v. Hif..Sot11b ומלקט להןוכ׳, v. נָקַט. 2) to pluck ( hair) out singly. Naz.40b לִיקְּטוֹ במלקט if he plucked it singly with pinchers; Macc.III, 5 לְקָטוֹ. Ib. 20b במְלַקֵּט לבנותוכ׳ when one plucks out the white hair among the black; Sabb.94b; a. e.(Naz. l. c. עד שילקטנו בתער, read שיטלנו as Macc.III, 5. Nif. נִלְקַט 1) to be collected, harvested. Tosef.Shebi.IV, 21 שגדל בחובה ונ׳ בחובה what has been growing under obligation (as eventually subject to tithes) and been harvested under obligation; שגדל בשביעית ונ׳ בשביעית what has been growing in the Sabbatical year and collected in ; R. Hash. 15a; a. e. 2) to be made smooth by plucking. Sabb.97a, v. מַלְקֵט. Pu. לוּקָּט to be gleaned. Peah V, 1 גדיש שלא ל׳ תחתיו a stack of grain under which the gleaning for the poor has been left. Hif. הִלְקִיט 1) to cause picking, to strew feed for birds. Tosef.Sabb.XVIII, 4 מַלְקִיטִין, contrad. to מהלקטין (v. הִילְקט); Sabb.155b. 2) to arrange the gleaning by the poor. Peah IV, 5 ( 3) היו מַלְקִיטִין על החבל Y. ed. (Bab. ed. a. Mish. מלקטין) arranged the gleaning by the line, leaving a corner at the end of each furrow. Hithpa. הִתְלַקֵּט to be collected; to require collection. Maas. Sh. II, 5 המִתְלַקְּטִים those coins which have been picked up singly, opp. הנבללין.Ḥull.46a מִתְלַקֵּט מהו if the required size of sound flesh can be obtained only by collecting (it not being in one place), how is it!Ib. 77a מתל׳ מהו how is it, if the quantity of flesh required to cover the broken bone is scattered? -
23 לָקַט
לָקַט(b. h.) ( to seize, 1) to gatter, glean; to pick, v. Pi.Part. לוֹקֵט gleaner, huckster, v. לָקוֹט. 2) (in sewing) to gather, pucker. M. Kat 26a bot. ללוֹקְטָן ולעשותן כמין סולמות to mend (the rente for the dead) by gathering or making a sort of stairs (chain-stitches), v. סוּלָּם. Pi. לִיקֵּט same, 1) to pick, harvest; to pick up, collect. Tosef.Shebi.IV, 21 לי׳ אתרוג באחדוכ׳ he harvested Ethrogs on the first of Shbat; R. Hash. 14a; Erub.7a; Yeb.15a. Tosef.R. Hash. I, 9 לי׳ ירק if one picked vegetables; a. v. fr.Mass. Sh. II, 5 מה שלי׳ לי׳וכ׳ Y. ed. (Mish. a. Bab. ed. מה שלקט לקט) what coins he picked up singly belong to the second-tithe fund. Y. ib. 53c והוא שלי׳ מיכן ומיכן אבל לי׳ על אומדוכ׳ (not אומן) provided he picked up here and there (deliberately selecting), but if he did so at random Bekh.7b כל חמטיל בצים מְלַקֵּט וב׳ every animal that lays eggs supports its brood by picking up food for it, except the bat … which gives suck.M. Kat. I, 5 מלקט אדםוכ׳ one may (during the festive week) collect for final burial the bones of, v. לִיקּוּט. Snh.VI, 6 מְלַקְּטִין את העצמותוכ׳ the bones (of the convict) may be collected and buried in their family tomb; a. fr.Esp. to glean, to take the poor mans share in the crop. Peah IV, 9 מי שלקטוכ׳ (Y. ed. שלי׳) if one gleaned the corner of the field and said, this is to belong to ; Gitt.11b; B. Mets.9b.Peah V, 6 לִלְקוֹט (Y. ed. ללַקֵּט). Y. ib. IV, 18b ילכו וִילַקְּטוּוכ׳ let them have an opportunity to go and glean in another field, v. כִּילּוּי, a. v. fr.Peah IV, 5, v. Hif..Sot11b ומלקט להןוכ׳, v. נָקַט. 2) to pluck ( hair) out singly. Naz.40b לִיקְּטוֹ במלקט if he plucked it singly with pinchers; Macc.III, 5 לְקָטוֹ. Ib. 20b במְלַקֵּט לבנותוכ׳ when one plucks out the white hair among the black; Sabb.94b; a. e.(Naz. l. c. עד שילקטנו בתער, read שיטלנו as Macc.III, 5. Nif. נִלְקַט 1) to be collected, harvested. Tosef.Shebi.IV, 21 שגדל בחובה ונ׳ בחובה what has been growing under obligation (as eventually subject to tithes) and been harvested under obligation; שגדל בשביעית ונ׳ בשביעית what has been growing in the Sabbatical year and collected in ; R. Hash. 15a; a. e. 2) to be made smooth by plucking. Sabb.97a, v. מַלְקֵט. Pu. לוּקָּט to be gleaned. Peah V, 1 גדיש שלא ל׳ תחתיו a stack of grain under which the gleaning for the poor has been left. Hif. הִלְקִיט 1) to cause picking, to strew feed for birds. Tosef.Sabb.XVIII, 4 מַלְקִיטִין, contrad. to מהלקטין (v. הִילְקט); Sabb.155b. 2) to arrange the gleaning by the poor. Peah IV, 5 ( 3) היו מַלְקִיטִין על החבל Y. ed. (Bab. ed. a. Mish. מלקטין) arranged the gleaning by the line, leaving a corner at the end of each furrow. Hithpa. הִתְלַקֵּט to be collected; to require collection. Maas. Sh. II, 5 המִתְלַקְּטִים those coins which have been picked up singly, opp. הנבללין.Ḥull.46a מִתְלַקֵּט מהו if the required size of sound flesh can be obtained only by collecting (it not being in one place), how is it!Ib. 77a מתל׳ מהו how is it, if the quantity of flesh required to cover the broken bone is scattered?
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