A Census of Benton & Related

Pantographic Engraving Machines

This is the primary distribution location for the monograph A Census of Benton and Related Pantographic Engraving Machines by Dr. David M. MacMillan. This monograph is a census of all known surviving single-arm vertical pantographic typographical engraving machines engineered by Linn Boyd Benton. It also includes closely related machines such as the near-copies by Tsugami (in Japan) and others. However, it excludes machines only influenced by Benton's work, such as the Pierpont machines used at the Monotype firms. It also contains information about the single surviving horizontal Benton pantograph (the "Adcut" machine), summaries of what little information we have about identifiable Benton and related machines which may no longer exist, and some information about surviving Benton and Benton-style cutter grinders.

Here is the document in PDF format: census-benton-tsugami.pdf

This is an open source document, so while few readers will have reason to look at them, the source materials for it must be presented here as well. The document is marked up in LaTeX and is intended to be processed using xelatex.

Here is a directory containing the source files (including local LaTeX macros) and the processed image files. Please note that each image file may be licensed under specific terms as specified in the Census document itself. The directory is: census-source

Here is a directory tree containing the original versions of each image and the image development done on them. Again, please respect the image licensing terms as specified in the Census document. The directory is: census-image-devel

Here is the archive of reprintable source material used in or referenced by the Census. The directory is: census-archive-public