Word: lithomat
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...inventors of this machine are two Frenchmen, Rene A. Higonnet and Louis Moyroud. These men first developed the process in France during the Second World War. They came to the United States, and to Cambridge, in 1945. The performance of their first test model induced the Lithomat Corporation to undertake the development and perfection of their machine. In 1948, with the machine still not ready for production, the Graphic Arts Research Foundation, Inc., was founded to help the inventors. This non-profit organization has financed the further development of Photon by soliciting contributions from 200 to 300 firms...
...machine was invented by French telephone engineers Rene Higgonet and Louis Moyroud, later developed by scientists including Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime boss of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. The Lithomat Corp. expects to market commercial versions for "less than $5,000" within 18 months, well under the average price of a Mergenthaler linotype...
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