While there still was type to set, there were those who did it swiftly.(BOOKS) From: The Washington Times | Date: August 31, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 News World Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Lyn Nofziger, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A few years after Tom Edison invented the electric light and a few years before Henry Ford's Model T ran the buggy whip manufacturers out of

business a man named Ottmar Merganthaler invented a type-setting machine that ended centuries of setting type by hand.

Now another man, Walker Rumble, has written a nostalgic book about printers and the printers trade in the post-Civil War l800s, before Mer...

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