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The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], A New Type-Setter. (search)
ome Journal, says the machine "to insert a pig at one end and grind out sausages at the other" is really "slow" in comparison with the new invention for setting types — a visit to which was the object of one of his recent walks in New York: "Alden's type-setter not only can set types as fast as eight men, but distributes, or restores to their places, the same amount by the same process — an auto-recuperation of outlay, which it is wondrous to believe (for an editor, at least,) may be a poswhich makes signals for the letters before they are taken, and which will allow as many as sixty to accumulate before they are disposed of, with no hindrance to the action of the machinery.--Could anything be more like a brain turned into brass? "The inventor of this wonderful affair, Timothy Alden, was a practical printer; and to it he devoted twenty years, dying when he had at last perfected it — his brain and nerves giving way to the diseases of over-concentration of thought and wi