BRUCE, George [1781-1866] -- Scottish-American printer and type founder, inventor
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He was co-inventor with his brother's son of a type-casting machine still widely used, and was instrumental in standardizing type sizes.
He immigrated from Scotland at age 15 with his elder brother, David, to Philadelphia, and later they joined in establishing a printing house at New York. There they introduced and improved the English process of stereotyping. They disolved the partnership in 1822, and George thereafter devoted his life to the type foundry.
Stereotyping is a method of printing using a metal plate
cast from a matrix molded from a raised surface, such as type.
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- Vivísimo - Clustered search on george bruce type founder
- Ixquick Metasearch
- Works by
- Analyses, critiques and interpretations
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- For sale
- Bruce font foundry : MyFonts.com Some of the fonts he created are still in use.
- HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things Pivotal Typecaster
- Works about
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- George Bruce : MyFonts.com
- Genealogy
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- Bruce Type Foundry A lovely piece, including images of many of the fonts from their catalog. You may recognize some of them!
- Foundries from the 19th century
- MATRIX MAKING AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Gallery
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