Hornbook, a small, squarish board with a handle. Affixed to one side was a single-page lesson protected by a thin covering of flattened horn. Used in colonial era schools. Devil, i.e. printer’s devil. An apprentice and errand boy. Platen, a flat plate, rectangular or round depending on the press, carrying the ink film used to ink the type. Webb, Roto, i.e. large commercial rotary presses. Jobstick, the hand held adjustable frame used by compositors to hold type in lines, as they plucked each piece from the type box. The stick was adjusted to the appropriate column width and the type was placed backwards! Space between lines was achieved by insertion of shorter, faceless type pieces, called "leading." Linotype, a wonderful machine which set type into lines as the operator typed the letters on a keyboard. Remarkably, the letters were hot cast on the spot from a reservoir of molten lead-tin. Nicola Tesla, the real inventor of radio—and so much else. Tesla described radio as early as 1892 and demonstrated a radio-controlled boat in 1898. When it was suggested that Marconi had gotten ahead of him in radio, Tesla replied; "Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents." Edward R. Murrow His “This is London...” broadcasts carried riveting news of the war. Ernie Pyle, not strictly a radio correspondent but, hey. Read his Brave Men. William Shirer, premier war correspondent and author of The Berlin Diaries and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. |