Central High School - Red and Black Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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,A-., , p'r' g,g 4 f 4: so so-N-Q H L ' g e .aj i,!'ff,,.m-1 4 - , E!! ur.: - - ' ., Q U , lu . . .HW HMV ff ' I :ff :ri-1 1 Tx-is - ui-:D AND BLACK line slug. Setting up for the monotype is done on a separate machine called the keyboard. The copy is translated in a series of perforations on a narrow roll of paper, each representing a character. The operator presses the keys until he has enough words to till a line. An i11di- eator tells exactly how much space is left. Then, by, pressing the proper justification key, the operator is able to till up the remaining space. The roll is taken to the monotype machine proper, where com- pressed air, being forced through the per- forations, operates the machine. The cast- ing machine begins at the end of the perforated roll a11d works baokwardg it sets any measure to sixty picas, and any size to 'forty-two point. The press has had much more advance- ment than the making and setting of type. For four hundred years press work was done by hand, ink balls were used, and no very great changes made in the mech- anism. A toggle-joint had replaced the screwg an apparatus for moving the bed in and out quickly was devised, and the press was braced so as to get an even impresison on all parts of the form. About 1,800 machinists started out to improve the pressg and the one and two- revolution presses are the modern results of these adventures. The printers of today are indebted to George Gordon for the invention of the forerunner of the modern job press. This press has been developed and thousands of them are in use. A self-feeder for it, which is able to guide to at very fine register, has been invented. The first newspapers were printed with the hand presses 011 tlat stock. On account Si.1'fvf'n of this the circulation of a newspaper was very limited. The cylinder press was hailed as a great advance, and the news- papers immediately put them in. The next step was the rotary press. This still printed from Hat stock, but did both sides at one operation. The Hoe ma- chine is the latest result in rotary web- fed presses. It prints from one to three rolls at a time, and turns out a folded and cut newspaper at the rate of 72,000 per hour. The different appliances for inking the forms have also been improved. Until the leather roller came into use, inking balls were used. Then the molded roller made from glue and molasses, or now-a- days glue and glycerine, superseded the leather roller and is now used on all presses, from the 15-inch rollers on the smallest Gordon to the 8-foot rollers on the largest Hoe presses. The paper-making machine invented in 1803 is in its essentials the paper-making machine of today. Up to that date all paper was made in single sheets by hand. The pulp was put into the mold by work- men, and then the mold was shaken to distribute the pulp evenly, and the result- ing sheet removed for drying and press- The principle was to substitute end- less woven wire sheets for the mold, and as the paper was formed by the felting of the fibers to lead it between heated cylinders to dry and press it. As it came from the machine the paper was cut into sheets of standard sizes. The continuous web of paper was made in 1803, but was not used. as a web for rotary printing until 1868. 'The making .of ink is a very intricate ing.