As a part of my "CircuitousRoot" hobby project, I have scanned and digitally reprinted a number of older technical documents now in the public domain. While these are available on this CircuitousRoot website in the context of the various "Notebooks," they can be difficult to find here. This present page is a single overall index of many (but not quite all) of the documents CircuitousRoot has reprinted.
Some of these documents are served from the CircuitousRoot website itself. Others are on a friend's server ("marcdatabase.com") because of space constraints on my own web server. Finally, I have more recently begun to place copies of some of them on The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). When present, these Internet Archive / archive.org versions are often the most convenient, because in addition to the raw version that I upload The Internet Archive automatically generates several handy derivative versions. These three locations are coded after each document entry as "{CR}" (locally on CircuitousRoot), "{MD}" (remotely on my friend's server), and "{IA}" (at The Internet Archive).
The bulk of the material here concerns machinery and processes for the making of relief ("letterpress") printing type, either as individual types or as "slugs" or lines of type. There is also some material on the Teletype, the Addressograph/Graphotype system, and the Typewriter.
The categories here are more or less arbitrary, but not without reason:
The Printer's Saw set of Notebooks in Composing Room Equipment (part of Type Machinery In Detail) also contains other material, including patents, advertisements, and suppliers' catalog pages.
Advertising (Entire Machines and Lines):
Advertising (Individual Components):
Individual Components (Technical Documents):
(Note: Previously I had "low-resolution, "higher-resolution," and "plates only" versions. Since I've moved the document storage to The Internet Archive, I've replaced these all with single (full resolution) versions.)
The Nuernberger-Rettig "Anthology of Source Materials" also contains a number of patents related to the Nuernberger-Rettig / Universal.
The Thompson Typecaster "Anthology of Source Materials" also contains a number of patents related to the Thompson.
Type-Making (Punchcutting, Matrix Engraving, Typecasting/Typefounding, etc.;
except Thompson and Nuernberger-Rettig Typecasters, and Type Mortising)
See also the Rouse Type Mortiser Notebook.
All portions of this document not noted otherwise are Copyright © 2010 by David M. MacMillan and Rollande Krandall.
Circuitous Root is a Registered Trademark of David M. MacMillan and Rollande Krandall.
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