Talk:Ottmar Mergenthaler

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This sentence is ungrammatical and nonsensical: "In 1876 he was approached by James O. Clephane, who sought a quicker way of publishing legal briefs.,[2] via [sic] Charles T. Moore who held a patent on a typewriter for newspapers which did not work and asked Mergenthaler to construct a better model [sic]."

What does the solecism "via" mean, what is the connection between Clephane and Moore, and what is the connection between publishing legal briefs and Moore's typewriter?

Please revise. Autodidact1 (talk) 10:16, 8 June 2013 (UTC)


 * "Via" presumably means that Clephane found him via Moore. Why is that a solecism or ungrammatical or nonsensical? See James O. Clephane for more history. Shreevatsa (talk) 05:38, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Insanity of Otto Merganthaler?
I recall lore that the complexity of the Linotype drove him insane. If not literally true, I think the lore should be addressed Bill burk (talk) 16:03, 19 February 2022 (UTC)