"Lanston Monotype Machine Company was founded by Tolbert Lanston in Washington D.C., USA, in 1887. Lanston had a patented mechanical method of punching out metal types from cold strips of metal which ...

Your issue of February 27 contains a communication by mail from London, under date of February 15, which begins with the statement: “It will now be possible to print Hebrew with the vowel marks on the ...

It will now be possible to print Hebrew with the vowel marks on the monotype machine, Lord Askwith announced at the annual meeting of the Lanston Monotype Corporation here. Lord Askwith stated that an ...

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