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  • Any mention of typesetting should work to include Mark Twain's quote about his relationship with the inventor James Paige, who worked on a never quite working as well as could be wished typesetting machine that Twain invested heavily in.

    "Paige and I always meet on effusively affectionate terms; and yet he knows perfectly well that if I had his nuts in a steel-trap I would shut out all human succor and watch that trap till he died."

  • From the last image:

    > No Type. No Distribution. No "Pie"-ing.

    > Self-spacing. Self-justifying.

    Looks machine-composed.

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