Biography

The Linograph was developed by Hans Petersen (1872-1924). Born in Denmark, Petersen emigrated with his parents at the age of ten and by the time he was twelve began working as a compositor in Scandinavian printing shops in the Minneapolis area. Trained on the Linotype, he developed ideas for a simpler and more efficient typecaster which, with two brothers, he developed into the Linograph Corporation, incorporated in Minneapolis in 1911 and moved to Davenport, Iowa, in 1912. The Linograph Corporation was bought by Intertype in January of 1944. (Source: Eckman, James. The Heritage of the Printer, pp. 31-35.)

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