Linotype Machine

This is an old linotype machine, resting in the lobby at the Hutchinson News office.
I remember visiting the News during the '40's and watching my cousin use this clanking monster.
It actually formed the words used in printing the paper  in metal and set them in order.

It was used from the late 1800s to the 1960s and 70s, when it was largely replaced by offset lithography printing and computer typesetting. The name of the machine comes from the fact that it produces an entire line of metal type at once, hence a line-o'-type, a significant improvement over the previous industry standard, i.e., manual, letter-by-letter typesetting using a composing stick and drawers of letters.

Molten metal was involved!