Velocipede

This hit my feed right at a time when I’d been wondering about how this worked, and what this kind of work must have been like. Imagine setting every character, on every page, in a long book (in reverse)!

Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype

Arensberg’s peers bestowed him with a new nickname: the “Velocipede”. Soon, Arensberg was the most famous typesetter in the world, and over the decade that followed his record-setting performance, typesetting races became increasingly popular with the broader public.