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I expected discussion of his investment in a typesetting machine. They have one in the Mark Twain museum in Hartford. Its a big machine: https://en.wikipedia.
by acomjean 9y ago
I expected discussion of his investment in a typesetting machine. They have one in the Mark Twain museum in Hartford. Its a big machine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paige_Compositor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paige_Compositor
"The Paige Compositor typesetting machine that drove the family to the brink of bankruptcy, forcing them to leave their Hartford home."
http://www.marktwainhouse.org/museum/our_collection.php http://www.marktwainhouse.org/museum/our_collection.php
- dmix 9y agoSeriously, how could they not mention this? The headline really has nothing to do with the article...
- mi100hael 9y agoFrom TFA: Excerpted from How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain by Alan Pell Crawford. Copyright © (2017) by Alan Pell Crawford. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.