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31 Mar 2003 — 3:38pm
31 Mar 2003 — 3:38pm
I have in mind a specific item of equipment used in typesetting. I would like the name of this item, the name of its inventor and by what name it was also known as.
Hint: One pin hole told the caster to slide the matrice case so many rows in one direction. The other pin hole so many rows in another direction. Beneath would be the selected character. Characters were cast individually and resulted in type identical to that set by a hand compositor.
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31 Mar 2003 — 4:24pm
Tiffany
From your description I would say this is Tolbert Lanston's hot metal composition system which consisted of a sparate keyboard and caster. This was known as the Monotype Machine.
I'm not aware that there was another name it was also known by.
At first I thought this latter question might have meant you were referring to the Paige Composition machine, also known as Twain's Folly (?), but it was not a casting machine.
31 Mar 2003 — 4:35pm
Gerald do you think my question is too vague? Hmm. You are on the right track however.
I guess I should revise. If my question is throwing you off, chances are I've misquoted something somewhere. Is there a rule for this??
31 Mar 2003 — 5:13pm
"and I don't think he knows how to make proposals either."
Marta
Oh yes he does. Ever hear of the Bush Doctrine? That particular proposal is changing the world as we know it.
31 Mar 2003 — 5:17pm
REVISED QUESTION
Hint: One pin hole told the caster to slide the matrice case so many rows in one direction. The other pin hole so many rows in another direction. Beneath would be the selected character. Characters were cast individually and resulted in type identical to that set by a hand compositor.
QUESTION: From the above hint, please name (a) the piece of equipment, (b) the man whom invented the technology used by this equipment, and (c) the nickname associated with his technology.
How many rules did I just break?
31 Mar 2003 — 6:00pm
QUESTION: From the above hint, please name (a) the piece of equipment which utilizes this technology, (b) the man whom invented the technology used by this equipment, and (c) the nickname associated with his technology.
This proves that articulation on the fly just does not work for me.
1 Apr 2003 — 9:39am
HINT: Keyboard
1 Apr 2003 — 12:05pm
HINT: Monotype
1 Apr 2003 — 1:28pm
monotype "d" keyboard.
1 Apr 2003 — 1:32pm
Eduardo -- You've restored my faith in the world. That is the first part. Now, what are the other two answers? This should be easy.
1 Apr 2003 — 1:36pm
hmm...
the inventor of monotype was Tolbert Lanston.
about the nickname, i think i'll need one more
hint. ;)
1 Apr 2003 — 2:21pm
Eduardo --> I'm looking for the name of the inventor for the technology used by this keyboard.
or rather
I'm looking for the name of the inventor for the technology used by this keyboard.
1 Apr 2003 — 3:42pm
Sorry Tiffany,
the difference between 'technology used' and 'technology used' is far too subtle for me to grasp at 1.30 in the morning. Please spell it out in 2 mile high letters of fire.
M.
1 Apr 2003 — 3:51pm
Basically, the hint which was given is describing the technology.
HINT: Loom
This was fun while it lasted.
1 Apr 2003 — 5:42pm
Oh, you wouldn't happen to be looking for Joseph-Marie Jacquard, inventor of punch-card-controlled looms, as the answer would you? If so, I think the question was a little confusing, as it didn't make clear that you were looking for the precursor of the punch-tape used on Monotype keyboards.
1 Apr 2003 — 5:48pm
Yes. That is the correct person. You don't happen to know the nickname do you?
To true. I SuperBotched(R) this question
1 Apr 2003 — 8:42pm
Well. I think I've tied this up long enough. Apologies to all on the cryptic way in which I worded my question. :^/
Answers:
(a) Linotype "D" Keyboard
(b) Jacquard
(c) Jacquard Loom
NEXT!
1 Apr 2003 — 10:33pm
Am I counted as getting it correct, even though I missed parts (a) and (c) (although I'm not sure that 'Jacquard Loom' counts as a nickname per se)?
Are you sure you meant Linotype D Keyboard? I know that Linotype developed a punched-tape keyboard arrangement, but the kind of typecasting mechanism you described (movement of matrix case, casting of individual sorts) is Monotype, not Linotype. The Linotype punch-tape was read by a machine that attached to a normal Linotype caster/keyboard arrangment, and essentially the punch-tape drove the keyboard to release matrices, etc. to cast lines-o-type.
2 Apr 2003 — 12:38am
Actually John, your Joseph-Marie Jacquard response was posed as a question, which could be interpreted as a guess. I'm just going by your rules here. So the first person to answer all three correctly, that is
Monotype "D" Keyboard (I'm sure Linotype was just an inadvertant error)
Jacquard
Jacquard Loom
would get the prize
Hey, I just did that!!!
2 Apr 2003 — 8:40am
Okay. I actually meant to type Lanston D Keyboard not Linotype, because as we know it was Monotype. Since posting this inarticulately prosed question I've since found more information, but this is from whence came the idea.
I suppose we are in a bit of a bind now, as both Eduardo and John both supplied part of the correct answer. Is there a rule for this?
Gerald, I'm not so sure you should get it as you had a bit of help. ;)
2 Apr 2003 — 8:44am
It wasn't a guess! It was an inquiry to find out if I had correctly interpreted the question. I was not guessing that Jacquard invented the punch-card-controlled loom -- I knew this --, I was wondering whether Tiffany was actually looking for the name of the inventor of this device.
However, just to keep things zany, I do not have time today to come up with a new question so, under the rules, the question will revert back to Tiffany but, presuming she's had enough, it will then revert back to me as quizmaster, and I can opt to invite another participant to pose the next question. So, Gerald, unless Tiffany announces in the next five minutes that she wants to pose another question, I hereby nominate you to pose the next question.
2 Apr 2003 — 9:01am
John -- I didn't read your post as a guess. Rather, I read it as you
finallycatching on to my Superdaft2 Apr 2003 — 9:30am
Tiffany and John
I was just being a naughty boy.
Ask the next question Tiffany.
2 Apr 2003 — 10:46am
What do these following people have in common?
Gordon Aymar
Herbert Bayer
Cipes Pineles Burtin
Heyworth Campbell
Alexander Liberman
L. Moholy-Nagy
2 Apr 2003 — 11:13am
they were included in Art Directors Club
Hall of Fame in 1975.
2 Apr 2003 — 11:21am
Good Job Eduardo! You win!
2 Apr 2003 — 12:20pm
So this is a music-and-design-related question:
Who is known as being the inventor of record-album covers?
Name at least one musician/artist that had an album cover
designed by this person.
Am I breaking any rules here, quizmaster? ;)
2 Apr 2003 — 12:59pm
Alex Steinweiss for Count Basie
2 Apr 2003 — 1:01pm
oh. wait. did I just break a rule?
2 Apr 2003 — 1:22pm
that's correct, tiffany.
anyway, if anyone here broke any rules, probably it was me,
since Alex Steinweiss was laureated by ADC Hall of Fame in 1998.
but i couldn't think of a better question, and it was not directly
related to your previous one, so i posted it anyway. ;)
besides, i'm logging off soon, so please, go ahead.