Machine Sets Type Without Human Aid. Automatic Typesetting- The operation of Linotype direct from copy without human effort- Was demonstrated at Charlotte, N.C., March 28, before a group of publishers and newspaper executive. The demonstration was given by the inventor, Buford L. Green, in the Charlotte observer building, where for more than two years the former printer and machinist has worked in closest secrecy to develop the device. A specially constructed typewriter on the carriage of the mechanism, called the "semagraph", replaces the standard linotype keyboard. A photoelectric cell is used to focus on the copy, simultaneously the matrices begin to drop from the linotype magazine and the slug of type is cast in the conventional manner. Photo shows Buford Green, the inventor and his device.

Associated Press · [ca. March 1932]

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