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Mark Twain and Paige Compositor

I read that writer Mark Twain once went broke, invested all his and his wife money into a new - and the first ever invented - typesetting machine. Paige Compositor was designed to replace the human typesetter of a printing press with a mechanical arm, but proven to be unreliable and too expensive.

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Uploaded on November 14, 2012
Taken on November 13, 2012