Title page of Thorne Type-Setting Machine brochure
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This brochure, of which a digital copy from the Stephen O. Saxe collection is available from the Internet Archive, is dated 1894. Notice that its illustrations reproduce photographs by means of half-tones in comparison to the Scientific American, which in 1895 retained the then archaic or traditional style of reproducing its images as engravings.
Page opening from 1894 brochure on the Thorne Type-Setttng & Distributing Machine
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Page opening from 1894 brochure on the Thorne Type-Setttng & Distributing Machine.
Features of the Thorne from the 1894 Brochure
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The Thorne machines were eventually renamed Simplex and Unitype.
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The Thorne machines were eventually renamed Simplex and Unitype
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The Thorne Type-Setting Machine is Introduced

1880
Thorne typesetting machine Scientific American 1895
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In 1880 American inventor Joseph Thorne of Hartford, Connecticut, received  U.S. patent 232,157 for a "Type Setting and Distributing machine."  By August 24, 1895 when the Scientific American published a cover story on the Thorne Type-Setting Machine more than a thousand of the machines were in use.

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