Operators of a Type Composing Machine
Two men operate a type composing machine. The machines collect and arrange the metal types used in early film photographic printing processes, a job previously done by human hand, and was highly complex for the time. This particular machine was invented by the Swede Alexander Lagerman, and was used in Dowgate Hill, London
Picture No
13743446
Media ID
46796940
Size
3193px x 5000px
(3.1MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
unattributed sketch, The Graphic, 15th August 1885, p. 179
Date
1885
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