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Ottmar Mergenthaler (
May 11,
1854 –
October 28,
1899) was a
German inventor, who has been called a second
Gutenberg because his invention of a machine that could easily and quickly set movable type revolutionized the art of printing. Prior to Mergenthaler's invention of the
linotype in 1884, no newspaper in the world had more than eight pages.
Mergenthaler was born in
Hachtel,
Baden-Württemberg,
Germany. He was the third son of a school teacher, Johann George Mergenthaler from
Hohenacker in
Waiblingen. He apprenticed to a watchmaker before moving to
Baltimore, Maryland, in
1872. In
1878, he became a
naturalized citizen of the
United States. He invented the
linotype machine in
1886, a machine that allowed an operator to automatically set metal type, which revolutionized the printing industry. He died of
tuberculosis in Baltimore in
1899.
An operational linotype is on display at the Baltimore Museum of Industry, in the museum's print shop. Baltimore’s vocational high school,
Mergenthaler Vocational Technical Senior High School, which opened in 1953, is named after him, although is it commonly referred to simply as "MERVO." Mergenthaler Hall on the Homewood campus of the
Johns Hopkins University was constructed in 1940-41 with money provided by Eugene and Mrs. Ottmar Mergenthaler, son and widow of Ottmar Mergenthaler.
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