Early Machines

Terry Foster sent in these superb pictures of early Machines, taken from an old book. The captions are also taken from the book.

I have produced a set of eight postcards featuring some of these "Early Machines" - the cards are unique to this site and cannot be bought anywhere else. Price includes postage to anywhere in the world. Click here for further details.

The Kastenbein Typesetter
The Linotype Blower
The Square Base Linotype
The Linotype Model 1
The Reconstructed Linotype Model 1
The Linotype Model 2
The Linotype Model 3
The Linograph
The Linotype Model 4 (First Style)
The Linotype Model 4 (Second Style)
The Linotype Model 6

The Linotype Model 1

Single-letter machine. The Model 1 Machine was later improved and built for double-letter matrices.

(This machine produced type faces up to 11-point and type bodies up to 12-point, in all measures up to 30 pica ems.)

This model is no longer built.