When I was in high school, I worked evenings in our little weekly newspaper shop. In addition to the paper, we also did job printing - sale bills, business cards, auction bills, etc. The job printing was hand set type, but the newspaper was linotype, except for the full-page ads. Some of the big ads were lead cast. There were two linotype machines in the shop, but only one of them was hot - the other was a spare. One weekend, I went with the shop owner to pick up a fancy linotype that he had bought. It had been moved to it's sale location, but was still unassembled. It was a heavy machine, and we hauled it home in pieces, then put it together in the shop with no instructions or even pictures. It was more automated than the other two. A splendid puzzle! We made it work, but I was skeptical until it spit out it's first type bar.
My future mother-in-law was the linotype operator in that print shop. She could make that thing sing. You had to wear long britches to run them. If they didn't close properly, they would spit hot lead on your legs.
The shop owner jokingly said that the man who invented the linotype machine eventually went insane, and he drove everyone else insane who ever operated or maintained one.
Offset printing sent the linotype machines to the scrapyards.
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