The Bentons : How an American Father and Son Changed the Printing Industry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cost, Patricia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, N.Y. : RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, [2011]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Benton, Morris Fuller.
Benton, Linn Boyd, > 1844-1932.
American Type Founders Company.
American Type Founders Company > History.
Type designers.
Type and type-founding.
Lettristes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Type and type-founding > United States > History.
Type designers > United States > Biography.
United States.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Metal type
  • Three generations of Bentons
  • The North-Western Type Foundry
  • Challenges and solutions
  • The development of Benton's punch-cutting machine, and how it made the linotype a success
  • The formation of the American Type Founders Company
  • Linn Boyd Benton and the century type
  • An overview of Linn Boyd Benton's patented inventions
  • Morris Benton at ATF
  • How type was made at ATF
  • The Benton family's early years in Plainfield, New Jersey
  • Prosperity and hard times
  • The typographic climate in the early twentieth century
  • Morris Benton's type designs
  • The later Plainfield years
  • The Benton legacy.

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