Linn boyd benton biography of barack
Linn boyd benton biography of barack
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Linn Boyd Benton
American typographer
Linn Boyd Benton ( in Little Falls, New York &#; in Plainfield, New Jersey) was an American typeface designer and inventor of technology for producing metal type.[1][2][3][4]
The son of Congressman Charles S.
Benton, he was named for his father's friend Linn Boyd.[5] After starting a career as a book-keeper and working at two newspapers, he became joint owner of Benton, Waldo & Co. Type Foundry and rapidly developed a thorough understanding of typefounding methods that led him to develop new technologies.
An profile described him as "an intelligent, entertaining, unostentatious gentleman, a mechanical genius".[5] Benton's company was one of the original group of companies that merged to form the American Type Founders Company (ATF) in , after which he was a director and chief consultant to ATF.
Benton invented many of the most important type founding technologies of the d