Cover Image

The swifts : printers in the age of typesetting races /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rumble, Walker
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Typesetting > United States > History > 19th century.
Typesetting > Competitions > United States > History > 19th century.
Printers > United States > Biography.
Printers > Employment > United States > History > 19th century.
Printing industry > Employees > Effect of technological innovations on > United States > History > 19th century.
Typesetting machines > United States > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • A Gutenberg legacy
  • The Arensberg wager and the swifts
  • The gendered machine of Timothy Alden
  • Augusta Lewis and Women's Typographical Union No. 1
  • Joseph McCann takes the swifts to the show
  • Fast women : the Boston typesetting races of 1886
  • Mr. Mergenthaler's revolution
  • Art and the swifts : shopfloor design from Harpel to Rogers
  • The death of a velocipede.