biography
| name: |
Mergenthaler, Ottmar
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pronunciation:
[mergentahler]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1854–99)
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| biography:
| Inventor of the Linotype machine, born in Hachtel, SW Germany. Apprenticed to a watchmaker, his interest was in engineering, which he learned through evening classes. After emigrating to the USA in 1872, he worked in a machine shop belonging to a relative, where he developed the famous Linotype typesetting machine in 1886, and worked on many other inventions. |
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