type-setting

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The idea of its founder was that it should teach not only the studies usually taught in college, but also other practical branches of education, such as telegraphy, type-setting, type-writing, book-keeping, and farming.

From American Men of Mind by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Let me now briefly sketch the history of type-setting machinery.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various

A Washington special in the New York News says: The company owning the type-setting machine has arranged to put up fifty of these machines for the transaction of business.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

He was not then a practical printer, though later he learned the art of type-setting.

From The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights by Hume, John F. (John Ferguson)

Monday, Rule was at work, type-setting in the Watch office.

From For Woman's Love by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte