
Monotype Keyboard

Year
1968
Accession Number
NPM.AR.8
Provenance
Donated by Conrad Devlin, Dublin
Monotype Keyboard
The operator would type the text on the keyboard. When each letter key was struck, a hole was punched on a roll of paper tape. Instructions regarding the size of the type and font to be used were hand-written on the tape. The tape was then passed on to the caster. The Monotype system was invented in the late 1890s by Tolbert Lanston (1844–1913). It consists of two machines, a keyboard and a caster, each of which was operated by a different person.