type-setting
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A new impetus to the making of books and printing was given by Woolwich's new system of electrotyping, and Charles Young's new device of a type-setting machine, first employed on the "Family Herald."
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson
Until about 30 years ago, before practical type-setting machines were invented, all type was set by hand.
From Wage Earning and Education by Rufus Rolla Lutz
Still type-setting was no bright field for a person of his temperament.
From The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser
Printers tell us that practice expels stiffness from the fingers and makes type-setting an automatic process.
From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Newell Dwight Hillis
Thus while he was doing haphazard type-setting, and trying to interest carriage builders in a new wagon brake, he was also beginning to write.
From Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists by Asa Don Dickinson
