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about 1890. With linotype, the press could adjust its form
more fully to the news-gathering of the telegraph and the
news-printing of the rotary presses. It is typical and significant
that the linotype answer to the long-standing slowness of
typesetting did not come from those directly engaged with the
problem. Fortunes had been vainly spent on typesetting
machines before James Clephane, seeking a fast way of writing
out and duplicating shorthand notes, found a way to combine
the typewriter and the typesetter. It was the typewriter that
solved the utterly different typesetting problem. Today the
publishing of book and newspaper both depends on the
typewriter.
The speed-up of information gathering and publishing
naturally created new forms of arranging material for readers.
As early as 1830 the French poet Lamartine had said, “The