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Monotype Keyboard

Pink Spot

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.