Typesetter part collection
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- OBJECT TYPE
- N/A
- DATE
- 1963
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1992.0383.002
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
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General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 2
- Total Parts
- 15
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Various synthetic, glass, wood and paper parts
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Printing
- Category
- Typesetting
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
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Unknown - Function
-
Unknown - Technical
-
THE "PHOTOTYPOSITOR" WAS INTRO. IN 1960, ITS ADVANTAGES WERE LOW OPERATING COST COMPARED WITH KEYBOARD SYSTEMS OR RUB-DOWN LETTERING, SPACING BETWEEN CHARACTERS EASILY MANIPULATED, COST OF MASTER TYPE FONTS COMPARTIVELY LOW- AVAILABILITY OF THESE MACHINES HELPED LEAD TO GROWTH OF SMALL TYPESETTING HOUSES - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- N/A
- Missing
- From CA of 01/23/1995 by Tony Missio: Undetermined
- Finish
- Unknown
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Typesetter part collection, after 1963, Artifact no. 1992.0383, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1992.0383.002/
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