Oh, a line of types!
The Linotype setting and casting machine is in operation.
Events
The Linotype machine, invented in the USA in 1886 by the German Ottmar Mergenthaler, calls up matrices via a typewriter keyboard and puts them together to form a line. This line of matrices is cast as a block and shoved onto the galley.
Museum details
Adresse
St. Alban-Tal 37
4052
Basel
+41 61 225 90 90
Price
Free entry with the Museums-PASS-Musées
Dates
Tuesday:
11:00-13:00
