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Calendoli machine—We will not complete this brief examination 
of the first type of composing machines without a word concerning 
the Calendoli machine (fig. 3), which is solely a composing machine. 
Tt composes with the speed of a typewriter, that is to say 15,000 ems 
or characters per hour. The type, cast in a special shape, issues from 
90 type-bar magazines consisting of mushroom rails on which the 
type is threaded. A workman behind the machine recharges the 
magazines as they are emptied. An inclined cylinder provided with 
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rails along its long dimension receives each type as the operator 
frees it by the manipulation of a keyboard. The type is thus ar- 
ranged in the galley by its own weight. The machine neither justi- 
fies nor distributes. It is therefore necessary to combine it with a 
justifying and distributing apparatus, or with a casting machine. 
Composition is effected so rapidly as to allow comparatively more 
time to be given to the justification and distribution. One could, 
moreover, combine a Desjardins machine of the type already de- 
scribed with the Calendoli machine. 
