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...shot of straight whiskey. Pittock was barely five feet tall, with a goat-beard, cool, abstemious and calculating. In his later years he loved to ride a horse at the head of parades because it flattered his disproportionately large head and shoulders. Brought from England by his printer father when he was four, he went West in a wagon train at 18, traded shots with Indians, turned down a bartender's job in Portland to set type for a weekly paper also called the Oregonian. His liquor-loving boss, Thomas J. Dryer, finally gave him the paper for back...
...adding one more upside-down item to an already topsy-turvy world, a waggled finger at TIME'S printer...
...rules of grammar, to which there are no exceptions. Its huge vocabulary is compounded from roots common to many languages. For instance, from the root pres (to print) are derived presajho (a piece of printed matter), represi (to reprint), presejo (a printing establishment), presigi (to have printed), presisto (a printer), presilo (a printing press), nepresebla (unprintable), presinda (worthy of printing), presacho (an abominable piece of printing...
...story. The typewriter's type bars carried coded combinations of dots under each character and the "copy" showed these dots. As each page was completed, Inventor Green lovingly inserted it into a Semagraph transmitter. Simultaneously, in the composing room of the Charlotte Observer 611 miles away, a telegraph printer reproduced the copy exactly. This copy, in turn, was fitted into the slots of a Semagraph setter unit attached to an ordinary linotype. With no further aid from human hands, the linotype cast perfect slugs of type ready for the printer's forms...
...light and a photo-electric cell. Whether in the transmitter or in the linotype activator, the light is focused on the coded dot combinations and reflected into the photocell. The varying combinations cause correspondingly varying pulsations in the photocell. These pulsations actuate the appropriate mechanisms in the telegraph printer and in the linotype (or Intertype). Its inventor claims that the speed of the Semagraph is limited only by the speed of the linotype. The number of teletype printers that can receive Semagraph copy from one transmitter is unlimited. Semagraph copy can be sent in different type sizes and column widths...