Monotype Composition Caster

Description

Part of a two-machine hot-metal casting system with the Monotype Keyboard. The caster would select the requested die case (type), and as the machine read the tape by blowing air through the perforated holes created by the Monotype Keyboard, the individual type letters were produced. The Monotype system was invented in the late 1890s by Tolbert Lanston (1844–1913). Each of the two machines, the keyboard and the caster, was operated by a different person.

Object Name(s): hot-metal casters

Object Category: TYPE COMPOSITION MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT

Creator: Monotype Corporation Ltd., London, England

Production date: c. 1968

Linear Dimensions Depth: 132

Materials: metal
Material Part: body

Provenance Summary: Donated by Conrad Devlin, 1993.

Credit Line: National Print Museum, Dublin

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