| Show MITCHELS typesetting TYPE SETTING MACHINE AS we stated in the min minor minon or a few days since the volume of Ban crofts miscellanies was set ret up in mr trow brows i office entirely by one of these mechanical cil ch anical compositor and they are now at work in getting ont out cc washington irvin irvings Is life of washington s 1 to he be published in a few days by putman co we have before us a coupie of pages 1 of the first proof 11 of this machine work and it is remarkably free from error errors in fact these machines cannot ros possibly sibly make fa a mistake if the performer upon them touches the right keys we shall not undertake to describe this wonderful laborsaving labor lafor saving savine invention except briefly and in general terms Therna the machine elline is of a triangular shape somewhat resembling a grand piano forte only not as large it has a key board corresponding to the letters of the alphabet and the punctuation marks 11 as the keys of the tiie wano represent the various S notes in the scale ecale of music and anci the work is is done by playing upon the finger board bourd precisely as tunes are played upon the piano foite folte foi fol te this part cf the performance is done by bv girls who acquire the art with gi eat pat facility the letters are supplied by long iong ong callies gal gai r lies lles each filled with wilh a single ingle letter which freire constant replenishing and every touch upon apo the key shilds the desired letter into a long lonz I 1 ne teil tell beneath eath the machine from which it is taken by a compositor broken into lines to suit the width of his page or column and justified the t distribution of the type is as olsby managed as the 11 composition but bill we cannot undertake to describe it this part of the work too is done by girl girls mr trow informs us tha one of these machines will iiii do the work of five men and after deducting the manual assistance required to operate them the saving saving in in the cost of composition is an important item mr mitchel has devoted three years to perfecting his invention on and of course having a patent right secured throughout the he world of letters betteis let teis will soon make his fortune his ilia present price for the machine is seven hundred dollars dol doi lats it is the opinion of mr trow who is one of our oun mast intelli ent and artistic practical printers that these machines are ate even better adapted for fir newspaper composition than for book work vork arid and there is this advantage about them they never cc strike for higher wages never go on sprees I 1 and never come to their work late and lazy in I 1 the morning we congratulate mr mitchel on his great invention and the republic of letters on the prospective cheapening of 11 printed matter HN N Y mirror |
