Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This latest batch of scrolls included two made of copper. The uneasy task of unrolling the brittle metal has taken until recently to complete. Incredible secrecy has surrounded the job; John Allegro, 32-year old lecturer in Semitic philology at the University of Manchester, is in charge and has hinted that the contents are "astonishing." The privilege of announcing what it says will be left to the Jordan government, and a dramatic, simultaneous release from Jerusalem, Washington and London is expected by scholars in the early summer. Some speculate that the copper scroll contains a map locating the Essenes' treasures...
...metal typesetting machine could not do any complex work like this so automatically. It would require a highly skilled operator four times longer to set up in type any of the complicated lay-outs so often used in advertising copy. A competent Photon operator, however, can learn how to use his machine in about two weeks. And his speed, even on normal, "straight" copy, is on the average twice as fast as that of the conventional machine's operator...
...more than 70 years, printing plants have generally set up type with machines employing the hot metal casting system, first developed by Ottmar Mergenthaler in the 1880's. Since then, these big, complex machines have become an integral part of all printing shops. They virtually eliminated the need for setting type by hand. Their speed, efficiency, and economy were considered phenomenal when they first appeared. For many people they seemed to be the final answer for most printing needs...
Later modifications of the hot metal typesetting technique have inmproved the efficiency of the original invention, but they have not changed this one basic fact, that all type is prepared for the printing presses through some system which employs hot metal casting...
...photocomposition system used by Photon is the first really new development in printing since Mergenthaler's invention. It promises to outdate, in time, all the conventional methods of hot-metal typesetting. The machine's performance for the Ledger--that newspaper intends to replace its 23 linotype machines with eight or ten of Photon--certainly indicates that someday photocomposition machines will be in as common use as Mergenthaler's invention is today...