Doug Wilson I don’t say this lightly: the Linotype typesetting machine revolutionized the world by speeding up the production of newspapers, books, magazines while increasing literacy everywhere it was introduced. But how exactly did this machine—invented by a German immigrant in the United States and exported to the United Kingdom—make its way across the Pacific Ocean to Australia?
This talk will dig into the history of who, when, and where the first Linotypes came to Australia, what impact it made, the fight for independent newspapers during colonial control, and the history of the First Australian peoples’ press.