Were those beautiful wooden walls salvaged? That wall paper in the lady’s room was amazing! I hope someone saved some of those incredible glass doors with that amazing period hardware, too!

Started my apprenticeship on Linotypes in 1973 in New Zealand. Changed to computers in 1977, but still did part time on Linos.

My grandpa went to Linotype school in the early 30s in Colorado. He was an old-school small town newspaper publisher, with a tiny, little weekly. His shop was full of amazing machines, but the Linotype was the best...wheels and gears and belts and cam, and MOLTEN LEAD!!! As a kid, I would just watch grandpa work, and he'd let us grandkids "help"; better than TV!

Amazing > In 1876, a German clock maker, Ottmar Mergenthaler, who had emigrated to the United States in 1872,[2] was approached by James O. Clephane and his associate Charles T. Moore, who sought a quicker way of publishing legal briefs.[3] By 1884, he conceived the idea of assembling metallic letter molds, called matrices, and casting molten metal into them, all within a single machine.[2]

Thank you for this demonstration. Cannot really understand how the machine worked from a textbook description.

It should be mentioned that ARTHUR FIRSTENBURG's book INVISIBLE RAINBOW directly correlates disease outbreaks with mass electrifications.

Oh wow ,I worked at Lehigh Valley Throwing Mills for 7 years , 7 to 3 and later I learned all the machines on al 3 floors and worked 2 shifts. Big boss was Dominick Pinella. wonderful co workers and managers.❤

These were built in my hometown.

You may like to know how the sole heir to the linotype machine fortune sacrificed himself during WWII and how he is immortalized in a tiny town in Luxembourg. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2iymmqnn7WaaaM

my god. the music. please will this trend die already? it ruins so much content.

In case no one has mentioned it yet... ETAOIN SHRDLU WAS HERE

Great video with some cool industrial history that we were not aware of, thank you! We are the current owners of the Vera Cruz Silk Mill, and have owned & operated our 3rd generation family manufacturing business from there since 1980. We have tried to maintain the original footprint of the interior & exterior, as well as the “Shuler Barn” which was later added to the property. Thank you for posting/sharing the video.

Were lines re-used if they were headings or something that was the same each issue? Or was the whole page redone everyday regardless of any repetition?

The biggest leap forward in printing history since Gutenberg.

Fantastic video great photos

What about showing a Monotype Machine and keyboard that was far superior for quality Bookwork and for skilled Compositors to create magazine ads etc. Compositors who learned their trade with Linotype seldom could work in Printing Companies that had Monotype Machines, that needed a whole new skill set.

He forgot to mention that the magazine up top was for one specific font and had to be swapped out to change the font or switch to italics. Those magazines were very heavy and had to be lifted up to install at the top of the machine, after removing the existing one. A storage rack of perhaps a dozen magazines would be located near the Linotype.

Lane Tech - Chicago -had our daily paper and printed our own year book '73 - had 3 rooms linotypes - composing room , light tables - and offset press room

AAH, aah, aah, aah, aah, aahg, aah ehh

Preservation is the best thing to say what you are doing to that great old steam engine-pump keep up the great work 🎉🎉

Outstanding video! You did a great job presenting all this!

U should be really proud of saving this old girl

Great video! Thank you.

Thanks from old New Orleans 😎

(showing large trees) "the tracks are no longer serviceable" - biggest understatement ever. Great video BTW - would love to hear more about this plant, and I love that it was more than just "here's a big engine starting" but you actually dug into a lot of interesting details most videos never care about. Thanks for putting this out there!

absolutely fascinating so nice this is preserved thank you

Phenomenal! And I live close. I'll have to visit.

One side of my family had been in Bethlehem since the 1860's, the other since 1902. Both worked in "The Steel" during both wars. Bethlehem Steel did what was necessary to keep the company working for the war effort. This was at a time when the government was less intrusive in people's lives.

God bless you!

Awesome 😎👍

Americans refer to an engine as frozen if it cannot be rotated, --- the rest of the world which is not the U.S.A --- never know if the engine will not rotate because it is locked with ice or has the engine lubrication failed or a component failed ?????????

120 ton shipping weight..?

Steam powered...boiler ...building.....installation......maintenance FUEL..... INSURANCE...... REPAIR....... UNION...... DEBT

Whaaaat..? This thing is a cast....forged...rolled......40 ton machine..? Extra assembly required..... See our catalog..... Deliveries labor and advice

I'm here because I watched the Twilight Zone episode Printer's Devil and had no idea what a linotype is.

Echo terrible.

I was at the last run of big allis it was awesome. I’m actually in one of the videos with to of my friends. I’ve seen it run 3 times before they stopped the annual running

That's willy willy neat . Thanks for shaywing .

the proper people on here did a similar steam engine at another water plant.

Damn... Alex Karnes, and we didn't even get to hear him talk.

Wow, this is an impressive piece of history and engineering. Too bad it is rusty and dirty...let`s hope it gets restored in the near future.

When I was younger, our county seat had it's own paper and a linotype hid in a back alley. Every time I'd go to town I'd ease back and watch the operator, racked back in a cane-bottomed straight chair, chain smoking and typing like a son-of-a-gun. All the whirring and clunking and lead ingots being slowly dropped into the melter and type slugs whizzing around just astounded me. I'd lean against the door frame in a trance and since it was summer, the door was always open and the afternoon sun always shining inside. Some things you just don't forget!

I was running the Linotype machine at age 12 at the Eaton Rapids Journal office! My great-grandfather bought the paper in the early 1920's after it had been opened in 1879. I learned to type on a manual typewriter, too, and hold my H.S. record for men at 100 wpm.

Why is the engineer’s seat on the left instead of the right which is the industrial norm?

I want to travel back to 1910 and remain there in an eternal loop, please!

Great work on restoring it, and great presentation too.

If you have not been there. GO. You will be amazed at the size of the stem engine. Me and my wife went to see the place. The men at it were so much involved in the past. We had a great time there. You need to go see it. You want regret it. Ps. they have a Train museum there also it was the old town.

Please look into joining our club (North Jersey Antique Engine and Machine Club). I will be honored to cover your cost if you choose to do so... I was elated to hear about your endeavor and I look forward to visiting soon and possibly helping to restore you pump house and especially your steam engine!!!

What a cool video. He did a great job at explaining it.

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