Whole Linotype Alloy Ingot About 5 pounds (4% Tin, 12% Antimony and 84% Lead)

Ingots are approximately 8-3/4" x 1" x 2" and weigh 5 pounds (+/- .25). Ingot weighs approximately 5 Pounds 4% tin, 12% antimony and 84% lead Classic Alloy for DIY Casters Made in USA Sold by the Bag 4-5 Pounds Alloy consists of 4% tin, 12% antimony and 84% lead. This very hard alloy was designed to

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Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad

Hot Type is the epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg's movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media. The Linotype mechanized the 400-year-old process of setting type one laborious letter at a time, and thus ignited an explosi

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Entwicklung eines Gerätes zur Fernwartung von Systemen unter Verwendung eines Mikrocontrollers, Modemchipsatzes und Multitasking-Betriebssytemes (

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The Secret Doctrine: Volume I ~ Cosmogenesis

This Theosophy Trust edition of The Secret Doctrine is a beautifully crafted book, unique in its organization, that will reward the reader with an enjoyable reading experience and be a valuable addition to their library. While there are several very accessible editions (not to mention the facsimi

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The Chinese Typewriter: A History (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today. Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered pr

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Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing

The story of writing in the digital age is every bit as messy as the ink-stained rags that littered the floor of Gutenberg’s print shop or the hot molten lead of the Linotype machine. During the period of the pivotal growth and widespread adoption of word processing as a writing technology, some a

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Sweet Thunder: A Novel

A beloved character brings the power of the press to 1920s Butte, Montana, in this latest from the best storyteller of the West In the winter of 1920, a quirky bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butte, Montana, from a year-long honeymoon with his bride, Grace. But the mansion bestowed by a former

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Isis Unveiled: Volume 1

While there are several very accessible editions (not to mention the facsimile version of the Original Edition) of Isis Unveiled already available in print, what does this Theosophy Trust Books edition offer that the others do not?Simply a higher degree of readability. The Original Edition was a spe

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The Book: The Life Story of a Technology

The printed book is one of life’s most frequently encountered technologies. Historian Nicole Howard provides a comprehensive survey of the evolution of this technology, tracing its development across many centuries and cultures. No other technology in human history, declares Howard, has had the im

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Newspaper Days: A Memoir

In 1960, while still in high school, Fred Frailey became a reporter for his father's newspaper--the smallest daily in Texas. Six years later, after stints at the Kansas City Star and Dallas Times Herald, he arrived at one of the nation's largest newspapers, the Chicago Sun-Times. His 11-year o

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I Hope This Helps

Bending genre as a planetary body might bend spacetime, Bashir’s poems live as music and film, as memoir, observation, and critique, as movement across both cosmic and poetic fields. I Hope This Helps  reflects on the excruciating metamorphosis of an artist, “a twinkle-textured disco-ball Jenga

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Windy City Watchdog

"Bob Wiedrich for many years was Chicago's foremost newspaper columnist, writing in the Chicago Tribune about crime, corrupt politicians, and major personalities. He made his mark shortly after mid-century, an era when the Mafia held a dominant role and the power of the press was at its zenith. In t

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The Fabulous Clipjoint

1948 Edgar Award Winner! Ed Hunter is eighteen, and he isn't happy. He doesn't want to end up like his father, a linotype operator and a drunk, married to a harridan, with a harridan-in-training stepdaughter. Ed wants out, he wants to live, he wants to see the world before it's too late. Then his fa

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Crime and the Printerýs Devil

The time is the Depression years of the 1930's, the dirty thirties as they were then called. The place is the town/village of Nelsonville, Dutchess County, New York. The characters, Leroy Andrew Bridges, the printer's devil and editorial assistant employed by the Nelsonville Times, a weekly newspape

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The Chinese Typewriter: A History (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards, word processing, and other syst

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This Moose Belongs to Me

From the illustrator of the #1 smash hit The Day the Crayons Quit comes the age-old tale of a boy and his moose . . . Wilfred is a boy with rules. He lives a very orderly life. It's fortunate, then, that he has a pet who abides by rules, such as not making noise while Wilfred educates him on his

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The Swifts: Printers in the Age of Typesetting Races

On a December day in 1885, Bill Barnes, a journeyman from the New York World, and Joe McCann, representing the New York Herald, faced off in a match race of Swifts, compositors who set type by hand, individually, letter by letter, with incredible accuracy and speed. McCann got off to a slow start, b

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The Book of Jasher: J.H. Parry & Company 1887

The Book of Jasher originally published by J.H. Parry & Company 1887 the translator of the text was unknown to the editor. The Book of Jasher contains 91 Chapters. Unlock the secrets of history and faith with the Book of Jasher. Here are five compelling reasons to dive into this timeless text: 1.

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The Fabulous Clipjoint (An American Mystery Classic)

"Ingenious . . . Plunges the reader into a desperate, working-class America now better known through William Lindsay Gresham’s precisely contemporary novel Nightmare Alley and such film-noir classics as Out of the Past and The Postman Always Rings Twice. "―Washington Post In the rough edges

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History Of The Press In Camden County, New Jersey (1921)

""History Of The Press In Camden County, New Jersey"" is a historical account of the development and evolution of the press in Camden County, New Jersey. The book was written by Charles Shimer Boyer and published in 1921.The book begins with an introduction to the early history of Camden County and

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