Show GAVE IDEA TO INVENTORS timothy aldens typesetting machine first of the kind to be placed on the market timothy alden was born in barnstable mass ilass OC sears ears ago lie ile was the first man to invent a typesetting machine in his boyhood timothy was apprenticed to a printer lie ile was a hot born n inventor and almost fi from om his first day in the printing office he began to think of plans for Imp improving roNing the various processes connected with voth the lie typographical art ile he invented several machines machine connected with printing before lie he turned his attention to the mechanical setting of type after several years of study lie he produced his first model of a typesetting machine in 1846 18 ag this machine consisted of a horizontal rotating wheel with type cells cell on its circumference milking making receivers rotate with it to pick out the type at the proper places this appliance was vas ingenious but it effected no improvement over hand compo mitlon timothy alden died in boston in 1858 and its his brother henry later made several improvements in tile the machine timothy aldens machine had the inerio merit of setting others to thinking about the same saine problem with the result that hand ban composition Is rapidly becoming a thing of the past |