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    Tolbert Lanston (February 3, 1844 – February 18, 1913) was the American founder of Monotype, inventing a mechanical typesetting system patented in 1887...
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    Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., founded as Lanston Monotype Machine Company in 1887 in Philadelphia by Tolbert Lanston, is an American (historically Anglo-American)...
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  • Lanston may refer to: Tolbert Lanston (1844–1913), the American founder of monotype. Lanston Monotype Company Lansoprazole, a medication which reduces...
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  • of Liberia William Tolbert (1913–1980), President of Liberia 1971–80 Given name Tolbert Lanston, American founder of Monotype Tolbert McCoy, victim in the...
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    Hewitt, driver and two-time champion in the USAC Silver Crown Series Tolbert Lanston, founder of Monotype Miss May I, metalcore band Richmond Mayo-Smith...
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  • Baskerville, Alois Senefelder, Frederick Koenig, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Tolbert Lanston. Routledge & Paul. ISBN 978-90-5008-393-5. "Reviews by Bookman". Belfast...
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    preparation, storage and transmission of data in telegraphy. In the 1880s, Tolbert Lanston invented the Monotype typesetting system, which consisted of a keyboard...
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    entered on the keyboard can be printed. In 1885, the American inventor Tolbert Lanston applied for a patent on a typesetting system that included the basic...
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    composition. This was eventually solved by Ottmar Mergenthaler and Tolbert Lanston who produced the Linotype and Monotype machines respectively. With...
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    Linotype machines that first effectively speeded up the process. In 1887, Tolbert Lanston invented the Monotype mechanical typesetting machine. This was a type...
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    hot type machine by Ottmar Mergenthaler (Linotype machine, 1886) and Tolbert Lanston (Monotype machine, 1887) and a few decades later the emergence of phototypesetting...
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  • motorcycle, which he has produced with Wilhelm Maybach. September 30 – Tolbert Lanston makes his first application for a United States patent on a typesetting...
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    Patrick Bernard Delany Engineering Telegraphy, High speed system 1896 Tolbert Lanston Invention Monotype Machine 1897 Hamilton Y. Castner Engineering Process...
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  • (1828–1892), Comptroller of the Currency, author of Coinage Act of 1873 Tolbert Lanston (1844–1913), American inventor William S. Lincoln (1813–1893), Representative...
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  • Jensen George W. Jones William M. Kelly Charles Knight Frederick Koenig Tolbert Lanston Aldus Manutius Richard N. McArthur Douglas C. McMurtrie Ottmar Mergenthaler...
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    14-point roman only". When Lanston Monotype bought and issued the face, it was again renamed, in honour of Tolbert Lanston; it was originally called Goudy...
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