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one Imndred and fifty-six thousand ems of minion. As the ma- 

 chine was worked one hundred and nineteen hours, this shows an 

 average speed of only thirteen hundred ems per hour. At first 

 sio-ht this might seem disappointing. There were reasons why it 

 was not so. The three operators were compositors, and had had 

 only three or four weeks' practice on the Typograph. Owing 



The Linotype. 



to faults of the motor used to run the machine, it had to be worked 

 by hand-power one quarter of the time. The three operators not 

 only ran the machine, but they read the proofs, made the correc- 

 tions, set the headings, and made up the " forms " ready for the 

 press. Finally, the machine lost several hours' work through a 

 fault in a casting. Taken as a whole, it seems to me the test was 

 a conclusive proof of the practical success of the Typograph. 



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