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Definition of Ottmar Mergenthaler
1. Noun. United States inventor (born in Germany) of the Linotype machine (1854-1899).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ottmar Mergenthaler
Literary usage of Ottmar Mergenthaler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Foreign-born Citizens: What They Have Done for America by Annie E. S. Beard (1922)
"... MAN WHO REVOLUTIONIZED TYPESETTING Ottmar Mergenthaler IN these days of the
multiplicity of the printed page we may well remember the man who invented ..."
2. Genealogical and Memorial Encyclopedia of the State of Maryland: A Record of by Richard Henry Spencer, American Historical Society (1919)
"... the creation of the brain of Ottmar Mergenthaler, a man of genius, who by this
invention has established his claim as one of the great emancipators of ..."
3. Leading American Inventors by George Iles (1912)
"Ottmar Mergenthaler ON the morning of October 26, 1872, ... To realize the vast
stride due to Ottmar Mergenthaler, let us watch an old-time compositor at ..."
4. The Sun Almanac for (1898)
"About two weeks before his death the linotype manufacturing company, which had
become known as Ottmar Mergenthaler & Co., was incorporated under the laws of ..."
5. Baltimore: Its History and Its People by Clayton Colman Hall, Lewis Historical Publishing Co (1912)
"Ottmar Mergenthaler Ottmar Mergenthaler, inventor of the Linotype machine which
bears his name, ..."
6. Machinery (1900)
"Ottmar Mergenthaler & Co. announced recently that after November i their business
would be continued on the same lines as heretofore by the Ottmar ..."
7. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1898)
"These arms are attached to ends of an upright piece which rests against the book
in that way supporting it. LINOTYPE IMPROVEMENT. Ottmar Mergenthaler & Co. ..."
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