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Monotype Epidiascope

1907

Monotype keyboard-mechanical, c. 1899

1899

Monotype Lapping Machine

Composition caster, by the Lanston Monotype Corporation Ltd, 1897

1897

Lord’s Prayer piece of type and souvenir card

Monotype Pierpont Punch-Cutting Machine

1910

Monotype Epidiascope

1912

Double Ended Steel Cylinder

1899

Monotype Punch Grinding Machine

Monotype Milling Machine

1908

Vertical Milling Machine used by Monotype Corporation

1917

Monotype Benton-Waldo Punchcutting Machine

1931
Monotype typecaster, c.1899. ( 225 characters).

Monotype Typecaster, c.1899 with Casing and components

1899
Monotype keyboard-pneumatic series A, c. 1899

Monotype keyboard-pneumatic series A, c. 1899

1899
Monotype keyboard-mechanical, c. 1899

Monotype keyboard and Steel Cylinder Component

1899
Lanston Monotype keyboard from 1897; no serial number. Made at Lanston Monotype Corporation Ltd, Washington DC, USA. A mechanism for perforating a paper ribbon which is used for controlling a composition caster. The keyboard has one bank of key buttons. Other features include a mechanical accumulator made up of a line-length rack, unit wheel, swinging arm and key-operated stops. The widths of characters were added up as they were keyboarded. There is a dial made of paper on the front of the machine.

Lanston Monotype keyboard from 1897

1897