Monotype
Monotipia
- Date
- 1887 (máquina 1897) · confidence high
- Place
- Washington, D.C., United States
- Credited to
- Tolbert Lanston
- People
- 👤 Tolbert Lanston1844–1913
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A hot-metal composition system that casts individual letters from a punched paper tape. A single character can be corrected, not a whole line as with the Linotype.
Lanston patented the principle in 1887; the commercial machine operated from 1897.
What it led to
- quality book composition
- Monotype faces such as Times New Roman
- later phototypesetting