Paige Compositor
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title:
Paige Compositor
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The Paige Compositor was an invention developed by James W. Paige (1842–1917) between 1872 and 1888. It was designed to replace the human typesetter of a lead type-composed printing form with a mechanical arm. In the early 1890s, a group of inventors signed a contract with Towner K. Webster in Chicago to produce 3,000 compositors. However, the machine was not nearly as precise as it should have been and never turned a profit because of its complexity and continual need for adjustment based upon
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Preliminary mechanical typesetter
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paige_Compositor
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2024-03-12T13:29:12Z
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