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1854 – 1899Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854-1899)Died 28 October 1899, aged 45German-born American inventor of the Linotype typesetting machine, patented in 1884. His machine revolutionized newspaper and book printing by mechanizing typesetting. He died of tuberculosis in Baltimore.