Same here! It's pretty fantastic.

Im here 3 years later for the same reason...!

17:04 YES! I heard a slide whistle in my head as the space band wedges were driven upward. This machine is incredible.

It must have been marvellous to work on such a newspaper. I worked a linotype for twenty years on the Scottish Daily Express, this was a paper in Scotland that in the 60s and 70s sold 600,000 copies every day. A great bit of engineering.

Oh my goodness, I'd love to come visit and see them!

No kidding. Any of these old, instructional films were so well made and explained.

Please remember when setting type: There is only one space between a period and the start of a new sentence and no space on either side of a virgule except when separating lines of music lyrics being set on one line. Also, watch your overuse of commas and insert hyphens into the phrase "piece-by-piece."

And what most people don’t know is that the Linotype was invented (and initially manufactured) in Baltimore! (Fun fact: years ago, I almost rented an apartment in the carriage house of Ottmar Mergenthaler’s house in Bolton Hill.)

No kidding! Think about how amazing that was for it's time? I mean, being able to hold for sections of a font at one time. That's cool! Darn cool!

To manufacture bombs and other military equipment for the "war efforts" no doubt?

@@DandyDon1 Nah, they were in active use during the wars. These machines were in widespread use through the 1970s. Only then did phototypesetting, and later computers, take over.

Thank you for the little peek behind the curtain! Do you happen to know the year this documentary was made? Unfortunately the video description doesn't have it.

Le Bublerkin he went stark raving mad.

@@velcrobroadcasting Ummm… not from anything I’ve read.

@@velcrobroadcasting what happened? Passed from tuberculosis Wikipedia say at least, just learning of him 🤔

The type sat on the "bed" of the printing press, thus "putting the paper to bed", then all the composing staff left for a hotel across the road from the newspaper office.

The plural of “matrix” is “matrices”, though indeed I would pronounce it as “may-tris-ees”, not “matt-ris-ees”. (Matrixes is another accepted, but less common, plural.)

He did receive various awards, but all posthumously as far as I know. Arguably the highest praise was from Thomas Edison, who referred to it as the “eighth wonder of the world”.

Today's society hates technology. Only women and fuckboys are valued. Not tech minded men with a cold and calm rational voice.

@@Bvic3 You do not have a rational voice, and today's society does value technology. I am sure that the society you invented in your head to get angry about does not.

It would be interesting to see a documentary like this on something cutting-edge and automated, like Ginkgo Bioworks' genetic "foundries"

@@GyroCoder Compare Europe, the US and China. Europe hates technology and science, in the US software is the only technology that is still valued but even there it's "AI research is evil", in China it's wonderful. Just compare how humanities intellectual talk about science and technology. XIX century Europe had very positive discourses. Since the 60s and the moral defeat of marxism, science and technology mean capitalist oppression+pollution and is hated in the culture as culture is made by intellectuals and most intellectuals are marxists. It's stunning when you learn Chinese and you see how 100% of discourse about technology is positive. In Europe, you'll never see a documentary that is pro technology. It's always fear mongering. It's not a surprise that the West is collapsing and China is rising. They are like XIXth century Europe, nearly complete freedom to innovate and a culture that applaudes it. And scientists are sexually valued too by the way, unlike in the West where the media ridicules scientists and engineers as nerds who can't get laid while fags are cool.

@@jslavertu Of course I'm bitter. Europe is collapsing while people are partying.

They cost the equivalent of around $100,000 apiece. Large newspapers would have dozens and dozens of them. (The Baltimore Sun, the paper of the place where the Linotype was invented and initially built, had 80 of them, and the New York Times, the paper of the city where the Linotype company would ultimately be based and most machines made, had over 100.)

These machines were rather quite robust and prone to few breakdowns if maintained properly. They are in fact like a fine watch.

The second movement (Largo) of "Winter" by Vivaldi.

I don't think the video answered it (but maybe I missed it) but since the commentator said european languages, how does it handle the accented letters (if you have the answer obviously, no need to go in a hunt if you don't know of the top of your head, I'll do it instead)

On the only linotype machine that I have seen the electric motor was a very customized Emerson Electric motor. I don't recall any electrical controls - appeared all mechanical.

The second movement (Largo) of "Winter" by Vivaldi.

The second movement (Largo) of "Winter" by Vivaldi.

On the topic of history disappearing - I recall seeing the old wire looms at the Gilbert and Bennett wire factory in Georgetown, CT - back around 1990 - they were in an old post & beam New England factory building and a jackshaft ran the length of the section of the building where the looms were and connected to them via leather belts. The plant electrician, Brian, showed me how the operated. They used an electrical control system that ran off an old plating MG set that was mounted up near ceiling - it generated 12 VDC and ran all these little electromagnets on each loom that looked just like telegraph sounder magnets. These would activate pieces of the loom in the proper sequence. Fascinating equipment. As I understand, some of this was sold to China to try and manufacture the wire screens there - don't know how the turned out. The rest was scrapped. Last I know the buildings were mostly unused. By the way - parts of the move "Other People's Money" was filmed there.

Line art and photographs were engraved on a photoengraver using chemicals to etch the image into a block of metal. Then they were placed in the chase and locked up with the type to produce a mat, which was then placed in a casting box, against which molten lead was poured to produce a rather heavy rotary plate for high-speed latterpress printing.