Thursday, May 31, 2012

Costco - Q-See 8-Channel Security System with 500 GB Hard Drive and 8 High-resolution Cameras

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$200 discount is reflected in the price. Valid for orders placed May 7, 2012 through June 3, 2012.
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Online price $599.99
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Key Features:

  • 8 Channel Real-time Recording DVR
  • 500GB Hard Drive Included
  • PC & MAC Remote Viewing Compatible
  • iPhone, iPad, Android, and Blackberry Viewing via Free App 
  • 6 Weatherproof Bullet 600TV Resolution Cameras w/120 Ft Night vision
  • 2 Indoor Dome 600TV Resolution Cameras w/65 Ft Night vision
  • 60' Cable per Camera Included

Just because you've left for the day, it doesn't mean that your needs for security and peace of mind has ended as well. Whether you're out for a few hours or for an extended vacation, Q-See's 8-Camera Surveillance Bundle lets you remotely monitor your home or business with confidence. Check in on your family or employees, keep an eye on your property and deter theft with this complete package.

This DVR+camera bundle includes an 8-channel security DVR with a pre-installed 500GB hard drive for extended recording times. The six included bullet color cameras provide clear video day or night with up to 120 feet of night vision. The bonus dome cameras provide up to 65 feet of night vision. Each camera is pre-equipped with flexible mounting brackets for ease of placement and positioning. You'll also get all the required cables and cords needed to get you up and running straight out of the box.

Q-See offers expansive user management, allowing you to assign individual privileges to other users while retaining ultimate control. Up to 10 users can simultaneously log in and monitor various functions and cameras. You are in charge of the DVRs recording schedule, display, user access, motion detection, email notifications, remote monitoring, and much more. View one or all channels at once from multiple network connections and delegate who watches which cameras for ultimate control. In addition, you can digitally zoom into your video images directly from the DVR!

Be it 5 miles, or 5000, you can access your live and recorded video footage while you're away. Access your DVR via high-speed Internet using a computer, a smartphone or tablet. The QC448-854-5 is compatible with Apple iPhones, iPads, BlackBerrys, Android, Windows Mobile Pro, and select Symbian, Mac and Windows operating systems.  You can view all of your cameras and keep informed. Q-See is a trusted leader in surveillance solutions for home and business environments, offering Peace of Mind Anywhere, Anytime.

HIGHLIGHTED FEATURES:                      

CIF/D1 RECORDING RESOLUTION        

Select CIF or D1 recording resolution depending on your preference. The QC448 surveillance system captures video in real-time CIF 352x240 pixel resolution at a rate of 30 frames per second, which results in smooth, continuous video motion. Or set the DVR to record at a lower frame per second with a larger video image size D1 704x480, which can be useful for the recognition and identification of people and objects.

HIGH-RESOLUTION CAMERAS                       

6 Bullet Cameras: This weatherproof, bullet-style camera is equipped with a fixed 5mm lens, 1/3" enhanced sensors with infrared cut filters, 600 TV lines of resolution, 42 infrared LEDs and a remarkable 120 foot night vision range. Because of their 0 lux luminance, the potent night vision you need can be achieved in low to near zero light. They are ready-made with a pre-assembled 3-axis mount for easy placement on a wall, ceiling, or other flat surface. The smart design helps to deter vandalism since the cable is unexposed.

2 Dome Cameras:  The two 600 TV line resolution, dome cameras can be mounted indoors in an entrance or key hallway. They provide up to 65 feet of night vision range, 0 lux luminance, and enhanced automatic infra red cut filters boast accurate colors, and better image quality in the day or night.

Q-SEE MOBILE APPS
With our latest mobile app "Q-See QC View" for iPhone/iPad, and Android, Q-See puts the power of peace-of-mind literally at your fingertips. Check in on your property, business or loved ones anywhere, at any time. Receive instant e-mail alerts and see what's going on with the swipe of a finger. View live feeds from cameras simultaneously, or review video recorded on your DVR. The "Q-See QC View" mobile app takes full advantage of touch-screen technology to allow you to add or change video feeds, play back video or even control a pan-tilt-zoom camera with finger gestures. You can even take still images and save them on your phone or send them as e-mail attachments.  With "Q-See QC View" on your Android phone, you're never out of touch. Get the most out of your system by being able to check in on the road – no computer required!

FREE ACCESS TO Q-SEE EXCLUSIVE! MULTI-DVR MONITORING SOFTWARE:  
Thinking of expanding your security system or needing to monitor a separate location? Q-See offers its free Professional Surveillance System (PSS) for its QC-series DVRs. This Q-See exclusive, advantageous feature allows you to access multiple same-series DVRs within your network or through the Internet. If you have two or more same-series DVRs in various locations (home office/business site, multiple retail sites, regional locations, etc.) you can conveniently view up to 64 or more cameras on one single screen.  Additionally, up to 10 users can remotely log into the DVR at the same time and dual-stream technology allows for easier internet access with lower bandwidths.

  • Connect up to 100 DVRs, or up to 2000 cameras
  • To identify if you have "Same-series" DVRs, the family of QC-Series DVRs include QC444, QC40108, QC40196, QC448 etc....

DVR FEATURES

CIF/D1 RECORDING RESOLUTION (IMAGE QUALITY & FRAMES PER SECOND)       

Select your Q-See QC448 DVR to record on CIF or D1 depending on your preference. CIF provides real-time recording and smooth, continuous video playback [30 frames per second per channel (240 frames per second total) / Playback resolution: 352x240]. While D1 records at a non-continuous, slower frame per second, but allows a larger video image size, which can be useful for the recognition and identification of people and objects [7.5 frames per second per channel (60 frames per second total) / Playback resolution: 704x480]. Or choose any combination of CIF and D1 to customize each camera to capture video that is best suited to your needs.

HARD DRIVE SIZE 

Record and store video footage on the pre-installed 500GB hard drive. The amount of footage that you can save on the hard drive before needing to over-write footage will depend on the recording and resolution settings you select. This system can support a hard drive upgrade of up to 3 Terabytes (SATA)

FOUR RECORDING MODES                          

Select from 4 different recording modes: 

  • Advanced Motion Detection: Advanced motion detection settings help to minimize false alarms. The easy-to-use motion detection set-up screen allows you to mask out certain areas which frequently experience heavy movement in order to avoid false alarms and unnecessary triggers.
  • Time-Schedule: Record based on a pre-set schedule that you choose depending on your needs. For example, only at night, only during office hours or only during non-business hours.
  • Alarm Sensor Trigger: Only records when the alarm sensor has been triggered. (Alarm sensor not included.)
  • Manual: When set to manual, the system will record 24 hours a day, 7 days a week or until you manually turn it off.

THREE VIEWING MODES                                 

Select from 3 different viewing modes:

  • Single Cam: Display 1 camera at a time
  • 1, 4, or 8 Cam: Display up to all 8 cameras at once on a split screen
  • Timed Auto-Sequence: Display a timed-auto sequence, which shows each camera for a few seconds and rotates the view through all cameras one at a time.

THREE SEARCH OPTIONS                 

Quickly find previously recorded video by searching in one of three ways:

  • Time: search video within a specific time frame
  • Motion Detection Event: search video by occurrences of motion
  • Alarm Triggered Event: search video by items that triggered an alert

MULTI-TASKING FUNCTIONALITY
The multi-tasking feature allows multiple functions to occur on the system at one time: record video, watch live video or playback video, while also monitoring and managing the system remotely, and backing up files.

REMOTE MONITORING COMPATIBILITY

  • Remote monitoring from Macintosh or PC computers connected to the Internet
  • FREE "Q-See QC View" app for iPhone and "Q-See QC View HD" for iPad available from Apple's AppStore
  • FREE "Q-See QC View" for Android phones and "Q-See QC View HD" for Android tablets available from Android Market
  • FREE "DMSS" app for Windows Phone 7, Windows Mobile Pro, BlackBerry and Symbian phones included on CD
  • Compatible operating systems: Mac OSX 10.6 and 10.7, Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7
  • Compatible Internet browsers: Internet Explorer 7-9, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Safari 5.0/5.1
  • FREE PSS software - included on CD – allows you to monitor your DVR regardless of browser, and connect multiple QC Series DVR's together
  • Remotely monitor 24/7 worldwide using high-speed Internet
  • Q-See's FREE MyQ-See.com Dynamic DDNS allows you to access your DVR remotely using a convenient URL instead of a complicated – and sometimes changing – IP address
  • Receive instant email alerts and snapshot images when motion is detected, an alarm is triggered, video loss occurred or other events
  • Up to 10 users can simultaneously log into the DVR with dual-stream technology allowing for easier Internet access even on low-bandwidth connections

CONVENIENT BACKUP  

Backup video files from the surveillance system to a PC, Flash Drive or USB Hard Drive in order to free-up space for new video while retaining important footage.

H.264 COMPRESSION

H.264 Compression minimizes file size in order to maximize the recording time, which also allows you to efficiently store as well as transfer video smoothly for viewing over the internet.

CONNECT MONITOR

Display on any TV or 19" or larger PC Monitor (1 BNC output, 1 BNC spot out, 1 VGA output). The system supports multiple VGA resolution settings: 800x600, 1024x768, and 1280x1024.

NAVIGATION MENUS                                

The user-friendly interface, along with the accompanying mouse and remote control, make moving through the program menus a breeze.

UNIVERSAL PLUG AND PLAY (UPnP)

UPnP, is a new network protocol that is designed to allow easier connections of networked devices such as computers, mobile devices and network-capable security DVRs. Q-See has incorporated UPnP technology into this DVR to allow them to automatically – and seamlessly interact with other devices on the network - without the need for special software or time-consuming configuration routines. If your router is UPnP-capable, Q-See's DVRs are ready to go to work!

CAMERA FEATURES

These premium sensor cameras capture 600 TV lines of resolution and boast 1/3" enhanced infrared cut sensors, allowing for a higher quality picture, accurate colors, and better image quality in the day or night than most standard surveillance cameras.

Bullet Weatherproof 600 TV Line Resolution Cameras:

  • Premium Resolution: 600 TV Line High-Resolution
  • 1/3" sensors with enhanced infrared cut filters: Allows for a higher quality picture, accurate colors, and better image quality than most standard surveillance cameras
  • Night Vision: Up to 120 Ft. in the dark with 42 infrared LEDs (night vision appears in B&W, day viewing in color)
  • Weatherproof Cameras: Suitable for both indoor and outdoor use
  • Cables: 60 Ft. cable included with each camera (Extensions available if needed)
  • Lens: 5.0mm lens providing a 50°-55° radius of field of view
  • Theft-Deterrent Mounting Brackets: Flexible 3-Axis brackets allow for more precise positioning of the cameras, while guiding the cables directly through the camera brackets to reduce the threat of vandalism to the cameras. The mounting brackets are capable of accommodating a variety of surfaces and angles.

Dome Indoor 600 TV Line Resolution Cameras:

  • Premium Resolution: 600 TV Line High-Resolution
  • 1/3" sensors with enhanced infrared cut filters: Allows for a higher quality picture, accurate colors, and better image quality than most standard surveillance cameras
  • Night Vision: Up to 65 Ft. in the dark with 24 infrared LEDs (night vision appears in B&W, day viewing in color)
  • Camera Application: Indoor use only
  • Cables: 60 Ft. cable included with each camera (Extensions available if needed.)
  • Lens: 5.0mm lens providing a 50°-55° radius of field of view
  • Easy ceiling mount

ADDITIONAL SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS:

  • DVR supports RS-485 compliant Pan-Tilt-Zoom cameras (not included) with 255 presets and 8 cruise settings
  • DVR supports one audio channel (audio cameras or microphones not included)
  • DVR Inputs/Outputs:
  • Video:  8 BNC inputs /1 BNC output, 1 VGA output
  • Audio: 1/1 (Audio mic/cameras not included)
  • Two USB 2.0 ports for USB mouse and USB back-up drive connectivity
  • DVR Power Supply: 12V/2A
  • DVR Operating Temperature: 50°-104°F
  • Camera Power Supply: 12V
  • Camera Operating Temperatures: 14°-122°F at 95% humidity

WHAT'S INCLUDED

  • 1-year Q-See Warranty & Lifetime Technical Support
  • 8-Channel H.264 DVR with 500GB Hard Drive (QC448-5)
  • (6) Weatherproof bullet cameras with 3-Axis Brackets (QM6006B)
  • (2) Indoor dome cameras (QM6007D)
  • (8) 60ft Cable for flexible installation
  • (2) 4-way camera power adapters for efficient installation
  • USB Mouse and Remote Control
  • CD-Rom with Remote Viewing Software and Manuals
  • Power supply for DVR
  • RJ-45 Ethernet Cable
  • BNC to RCA adapter

SUPPORT:

[Model QC448-854-5]


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Article: Lunascape Browser - Experience the world's only triple engine browser

Lunascape Browser - Experience the world's only triple engine browser
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Triple Engine & Triple Add-on: All-in-one Browser

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LUNASCAPE is the world's first and only triple engine browser. It has been downloaded over 20 million times and it's available globally in 12 languages. Try it for yourself the new kind of speed and versatility.

Triple Engine goes Triple Add-on


Lunascape is now compatible with the expanding array of Firefox add-ons in addition to the already supported Internet Explorer add-ons and Lunascape plug-ins, achieving the greatest degree of extensibility and flexibility among Web browsers. Transferring your add-ons from Firefox is very easy.

 

Extensible AND Fast


Lunascape6 achieves the utmost extensibility without compromising one of the fastest speeds in the market. You can browse lightning fast while enjoying ample add-ons. We've also made special effort in ensuring fast launch even with many add-ons.

Simply Refined Interface


A new interface mode, ORION, is added to version 6 as a default. This sleek minimalist interface has all the basic functions and will get you going in no time. You can still customize many aspects of interface to your liking.

 

Triple Engine Side-by-Side Display


Our unique Triple Engine keeps evolving. To better support web designers and developers, we have implemented "split tab display". You can view a web page in 3 rendering engines side-by-side to easily check the browser compatibility.

Browsers are not made equal, but you can have it all with Lunascape

You spend many hours of your day doing something on the Internet, but may not have thought about what a browser can do and which browser is right for you. That's ok, you are not the only one. In fact, many people use a browser that came pre-installed with the computer, just because it's there or thinking it's all the same.

In reality, however, each browser is different in its own way. At Lunascape, we take a different approach. Rather than competing with each one of them, we combine the best of all browsers.

Lunascape is the world's only triple engine browser. What this means is that you can have the best features, performance, and speed of, Windows Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari all in one browser and can view any website in an optimal way without a need to open another browser.

Yeah, that's right. Lunascape = IE (Trident)+Firefox (Gecko)+Chrome・Safari (Webkit)

On top of that, our technology achieves one of the fastest browsing speed and provides you with full of features and customizable options. It is light, snappy, and fun.

Lunascape has been downloaded over 20 million times and we are rapidly growing users all over the world since the launch of multilingual versions.

No more oh-so-slow moment. No more messed-up page display. No more juggling multiple browsers. Your internet experience is a lot better with Lunascape. Experience it yourself, the whole new speed and versatility.


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Expert photo touch-up can be achieved by unskilled users in minutes.With Portrait Professional, you can enhance faces as much as you want simply by moving sliders.

 

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Article: Republicans Turn to Incoherent Blog Post for Debt Ceiling Advice

Republicans Turn to Incoherent Blog Post for Debt Ceiling Advice
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Republicans Turn to Incoherent Blog Post for Debt Ceiling AdviceThe world is tuning in with disbelief at House Republicans, who are still preparing to blow up everyone's precious global economy. House Republicans, meanwhile, are passing around a dumb blog post from RedState's Erick Erickson outlining supposedly good reasons for causing a Depression! Good heavens.

Here's what's inside the post, "Dear House Republicans, This is Your 'Time For Choosing,'" that the House GOP caucus is literally handing around in its meeting today.

Now is a time for choosing. Now is your time for choosing.As I pointed out to John Boehner yesterday, despite what the pundits in Washington are telling you, it is you and not Obama who hold most of the cards. Obama has a legacy to worry about. Should the United States lose its bond rating, it will be called the "Obama Depression." Congress does not get pinned with this stuff.

What's worse: The cold-hearted cynicism of simply allowing a depression so as to avoid political blame for the issue they chose to flap their gums about for months at a time and haven't conceded a penny on ever since, or the fact that polls show Erickson's blame-game argument to be false? Maybe well into the future, events would be remembered by their presidents… or they'd be remembered by how House Republicans shitcanned their party into oblivion by doing something so stupid. We'll all be dead in the future, anyway, so it won't matter.

But wait a minute! We thought that all of that talk about a possible depression was nonsense, and that Democrats and Wall Street and businesses and the Federal Reserve and anyone who's not a fucking idiot were just scaremongering? Erick goes on to make this point next, even if it completely contradicts his first point:

First, as the hours go on, the doom and gloom scenarios are going to get worse. By the end of July, Goldman Sachs, Ben Bernanke, and Timmy Geithner are going to tell you the world will end unless you raise the debt ceiling.

They did it with TARP too.

And now we know that the amount of money used in TARP was far less than allocated and a lot of the TARP situation involved Hank Paulson forcing solvent banks to play along. Oh, and a great many Republicans were primaried out of office.

Do not believe the doom and gloom. Wise decisions are never made when premised on fear.

Wise decisions can absolutely be premised on fear, if you're too dense to figure out right vs. wrong through the typical route of fact-based reasoning. Like if you're going to burn down a gasoline-soaked house with a match for no reason whatsoever, and all of the adults around you try to scare you out of doing it, because it's an insane and arbitrary thing to do that's not in response to any imminent crisis. Then you'd be making a wise decision to back down because everyone's screaming at you.

So that's what House Republicans are passing around in their meeting today. Yikes? Mmhmm, yup. Anyway, enjoy the latest funny picture of Eric Cantor.

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

BBC News - Would more holiday be good for America?

Would more holiday be good for America?

1 September 2010 Last updated at 05:10 ET Michael Goldfarb By Michael Goldfarb Journalist and broadcaster

In theory, the summer is over here. We've just had August Bank Holiday, the British equivalent of Labor Day, the last official three-day weekend of the summer.

Hyde Park Guaranteed paid vacations don't take a lot of getting used to - even if the weather is variable

But the little development of flats I live in is still quiet. A majority of folks still seem to be on vacation.

Not me, of course. I may have lived in Britain for 25 years but I'm an American by birth, self-employed, and so after nine days away, I'm back in harness, ready for action.

And as most of my work this week involves organising a lecture tour in the US in the autumn, I am having a productive time. It may be the last week of summer in the land of my birth but almost everybody I need to be in touch with in America is at their desk sounding harassed as ever.

Month-long shutdown

When people speak of the Anglo-Saxon model of capitalism, what they are usually referring to is the remarkable Anglo-American coincidence that Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan came to office at the same time and shared identical economic philosophies and policy gurus.

Those days are gone and the Anglo-Saxon model is more nostalgia than reality. But even in the headiest days of the Iron Lady and the Gipper, one place where the model didn't hold was on the issue of paid annual leave.

British workers get generous guarantees of time off, currently 20 days a year. That is one full month of paid leave. Judiciously planned around public holidays - eight in England and Wales, nine in Scotland and 10 in Northern Ireland - it means this country basically shuts down for most of August and between Christmas and New Year.

It's not just Britain where good vacation is the norm.

The figures in a 2007 report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) are stark. It looked at 21 of the richest countries in the world, and found that only one, the US, does not impose a legal mandate on employers to provide time off.

Man under parasol, Germany Come summer, lucky Americans may get one week of vacation

Obviously, people in America do get paid annual leave, but for most wage earners it is subject to so many different calculations based on seniority and how much you earn, it can only be described as miserly.

In other words, it is a privilege to be earned rather than a normal part of compensation.

Nine days of annual leave is what the average American accrues during the course of a year. So you have to be at your job for 12 months before you begin to get even that amount.

If you figure that folks might take a day or two at Christmas, maybe Thanksgiving, and keep a day or two in the bank for a family emergency, what you're left with come the good weather is a week of vacation if you're lucky.

Raw fear

The difference between American attitudes to vacation and those of Britons and others is hard to explain.

I have worked for wages on both sides of the Atlantic and the experience is broadly comparable. Yet no British worker - nor most British employers - would accept such little vacation entitlement.

Holidays as part of compensation are one of the small, subtle things that keep a workplace happy. Happy workers are productive workers in ways that can't be measured statistically.

Whenever citing Americans' acceptance of the longer hours they work or their lack of paid leave, the cliche is to say it goes back to the country's Puritan heritage or the Protestant work ethic.

I disagree. I think it comes from raw fear.

Most Americans are not descended from Puritan stock. The people I have worked with in a variety of jobs - I wasn't always a journalist - would have liked nothing more than a guarantee of 20 days of paid holiday a year.

But since the heyday of Thatcher and Reagan, they have been increasingly afraid to ask for it directly and way too afraid to come together and demand it as a group.

It is easy enough to get fired in the US, and when people have a job they tend not to want to make waves.

Social benefit

It's a shame really. In a country where economic insecurity is resulting in a disturbingly aggressive public debate - disturbing, at least, to one American expat - it would probably be a good thing for employers to start paying their workers to take extra chill time.

The benefit to society would be immediate because the thing is, guaranteed paid vacations don't take a lot of getting used to.

Bridge of Sighs, Cambridge Cambridge (UK): Fine in summer, but miserably damp and cold the rest of the time

For all their pride in working longer hours with no vacation than anyone else, I think Americans could adjust very quickly to having paid down time.

Take the case of a colleague who worked for the International Herald Tribune in Paris. The Trib is owned by The New York Times and like most of its minuscule staff, he was on assignment from New York.

We met for lunch while I was in Paris researching a book a couple of years ago, and as we ate he told me he was taking the following week off. It was March, not vacation season, and I asked him why he was taking it then.

He told me he worked under French employment rules and was legally obliged to take his vacation allocation. He said he couldn't use it all up in the summer, as there were too many weeks he had to take.

So he was grabbing some time out of season in England, in Cambridge. American readers won't know what the weather in that ancient university town is like in late winter, but he was not going to have to pack shorts.

Still he cackled with glee as he bragged on this situation. He seemed so relaxed and happy I let him pick up the tab for lunch.

Anyway, things aren't likely to be getting better in the US.

The CEPR statistics I mentioned above date back a few years. In the current economic climate, where people are losing their jobs in droves, if they are lucky enough to find new employment they will go to the bottom of the seniority list and have to accrue vacation days from the beginning.

My guess is that the next such analysis will show Americans having less paid holiday than ever.

Michael Goldfarb is a journalist and broadcaster who has lived in London since 1985. Formerly with National Public Radio, he is now the London correspondent of globalpost.com.



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What Is Wood Type? - Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum

What Is Wood Type?

The Logical Material

Content Courtesy of Professor David Shields of the Rob Roy Kelly Collection, University of Texas Austin.

Wood has been used for letterforms and illustrations dating back to the first known Chinese wood block
print from 868 CE. The forerunner of the block print in China was the wooden stamp. The image on these
stamps was most often that of the Buddha, and was quite small. Provided with handles to facilitate their
use, they were not unlike the modern rubber-stamps of today. In Europe, large letters used in printing
were carved out of wood because large metal type had a tendency to develop uneven surfaces, or crack, as
it cooled.

In America, with the expansion of the commercial printing industry in the first years of the 19th century,
it was inevitable that someone would perfect a process for cheaply producing the large letters so in
demand for broadsides. Wood was the logical material because of its lightness, availability, and known
printing qualities.

Mass Production

Darius Wells of New York invented the means for mass producing letters in 1827, and published the first
known wood type catalog in 1828. In the preface to his first wood type catalog, Wells outlined the
advantages of wood type. Wood type was half the cost of metal type, and when prepared by machine it had
smooth, even surfaces, where the possibility of unequal cooling caused large lead type to distort.

Up until that time, the usual procedure was to draw the letter on wood, or paper which was pasted to the
wood, and then cut around the letter with a knife or graver, gouging out the parts to be left blank. Wells,
however, introduced a basic invention, the lateral router, that allowed for greater control when cutting
type and decreased the time it took to cut each letter.

In 1834, William Leavenworth made his contribution to the wood type industry with the introduction of
the pantograph to the manufacturing process. He adapted the pantograph to the Wells router, and the
combination formed the basic machinery required for making wood type on a production basis.

Designers & Manufacturers

From the initial presentation of wood type in 1828 by Darius Wells, there followed a group of designers
and manufacturers of wood type, including Leavenworth.

Edwin Allen, son of a cabinetmaker, set up shop in South Windham, Connecticut in 1836. Interested in
developing the equipment and machinery of production, Allen developed a pantograph-router method of
cutting type independently of Leavenworth when he came upon some crudely cut type in a local print
shop. By the early 1840s Allen was producing type in such quantities that he began looking for new
markets, and expanding his production to include Allen's Education Tables, and later to the
manufacturing of wooden spools.

Many employees of Allen's went on to found their own type companies. William and Samuel Day set
up their type production in Ohio after working for Allen until 1845, and employed inmates at the Ohio
State Penitentiary to cut type for a time when their employees went on strike. Horatio and Jeremiah
Bill, also employees of Allen, set up their production in 1850 in Lebanon, Connecticut and exhibited their
type at the 1853 New York World's Fair.

John Cooley, who started as a newspaper publisher and job printer, actually purchased Edwin Allen's
entire type production business, including Allen's factory in 1852 when Allen went on to other projects, .
The factory was later leased to another wood type manufacturer, Charles Tubbs in 1878. Tubbs' American
Wood Type Company produced wood type in South Windham until 1903 when he sold the company to
four employees. The renamed Tubbs Manufacturing Company was moved to Ludington, Michigan. Tubbs
Mfg Co was the last wood type business purchased by Hamilton in 1909.

Morgans & Wilcox was founded, originally as Young & Morgans, by William T. Morgans in 1876 as a
natural extension of his printing business and his interest in improving the process of printing in general.
Wilcox came aboard, in 1880, as an investor when Morgans had to rebuild his factory after it burned to
the ground. Eventually, Hamilton bought their company in 1897.

Ebenezer Webb, who had purchased Leavenworth's operation in early 1839, entered into a partnership
with Darius Wells later that year, and became the successor to Wells' operation in 1854. Webb died in
1864 and his entire inventory of wood type was bought by Hebert Wells, youngest son of Darius. This
company was eventually sold to Hamilton Mfg Co in late 1899.

William Page, after working with John Cooley, started out with the equipment he bought from the Bill
brothers in 1856, and founded Page & Bassett. During the Civil War, Page perfected his equipment,
eventually developed a method of stamping or die-cutting type in the late 1880's, and became the leading
manufacturer of wood type. Page sold his business to Hamilton in 1891 to focus his energies on his steam
heating business.

The Hamilton Advantage

A major step in the manufacture of wood type was the introduction of holly wood type in 1880 by James
Edward Hamilton. This less expensive production method gave Hamilton an economic advantage over his
competitors. The Hamilton Mfg. Co. was able to acquire all of its major competition, including Page,
Morgans & Wilcox, and Heber Wells, during the 1890s. Tubbs Mfg Co, the last major competitor from the
nineteenth century, was acquired in 1909. Hamilton added the end-cut method to their production in
1888, and phased out use of the veneer method around 1890. After the acquisition of the William H. Page
Wood Type Co in 1891, Hamilton gained the machinery to produce type with the die-cut method. They
continued using this method until around 1906.

Though the demand for wood type started to wane in the 1920s, Hamilton continued to produce wood
type until very close to the end of the 20th century.

Manufacturer's Timeline

Below is a diagram outlining all of the major type manufacturer's in the U.S.

A Manufacturer's Timeline



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