'I knew you weren't the composing machine they say you are.'

Hot-metal slug-setting composing machine, similar to Linotype; a trade name.

Prior to the opening of the museum, a composing machine and a printing press were stored in a garage in Neptunvej.

Some of the very earliest composing machines in Britain had been in use in Edinburgh in the 1860s.

He had banks of oscillators and mixersin fact, he modified an ordinary electronic organ for this part of the apparatus which were controlled by his composing machine.

Woodworth uses "cold type" composing machines from the mid-20th century such as the VariTyper and JustoWriter to typeset copy for The Match!

- Performs related duties such as operating a cold-type photo­ composing machine to typeset names, captions. and legends for maps, graphs and charts and maintaining a map filing system.

The plentiful records in Edinburgh provide a unique example of the way this classic restructuring of the work process was already operating in the book-printing houses, before the introduction of composing machines.

The memorial marks a striking turnabout in the men's approach to composing machines, which must have been the result of a fairly recent appreciation of the double threat posed by women Monotype operators.

All new keyboards of composing machines were to be operated by male union labour, and fifty per cent of upmaking and correction on keyboard material was to be done by men.

Note: a brief summary of work by Olson and Belar is given, and their "composing machine" is described as a prototype of RCA Electronic Music Synthesizers.

Mr Blaikie of Constable's (a firm which, it will be remembered, did not employ many women) said during talks with the union in 1910: "I delayed for years putting composing machines in my office, partly not to displace labour.

A printing centre which could offer good quality work at moderate prices, for instance by paying its work-force less, by being located in a low-rent region and, at the beginning of the twentieth century, by introducing composing machines, could attract work from a wide radius.

In 1953, the company published The Wonderful World of Insects as the first book printed by the Photon (known as the Lumitype in France), a photographic type composing machine invented by René Alphonse Higonnet and Louis Moyroud.

Memorandum Upon an Alphabetical System for Writing Chinese: the Application of this System to the Typewriter and to the Linotype or other Typecasting and Composing Machines and its Application to the Braille System for the Blind (1927)

Besides the inevitable chorus of sneezes and coughs (they say America is fifty per cent allergic these days), there was a band going full blast in the latest robop style, in which an electronic composing machine selects an arbitrary sequence of tones into which the musicians weave their raucous little individualities.