1. Tolbert Lanston was the American founder of Monotype, inventing a mechanical typesetting system patented in 1887 and the first hot metal typesetter a few years later.
10 Facts About Tolbert Lanston
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Tolbert Lanston was born into a poor family in Troy, Ohio.
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Tolbert Lanston quit school at the age of 15, he was a volunteer in the Federal Army during the Civil War.
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Tolbert Lanston worked with Seaton and Herman Hollerith on tabulating devices and invented an adding machine which was the first money-maker for Hollerith's company.
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Tolbert Lanston resigned his post at the Pension office and devoted the remainder of his life to perfection of his machine.
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Tolbert Lanston created the idea but others perfected it and made the Lanston Monotype Machine Company successful.
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Tolbert Lanston married Betty G Herdel in 1866, and they had one son.
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Tolbert Lanston died in Washington, DC, on February 18,1913.
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Tolbert Lanston was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, DC.
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Tolbert Lanston did start his inventions to create a type-setting machine, first with the financial help of Seaton, later from J Maury Dove, coal-merchant in Washington.