Diagram of tooth coding of the distributor rail, showing the first few positions of the rail. The coding is basically straight binary. Note that there are two positions for "e"; there are two magazine slots for that letter because of its high frequency
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Linotype Machine Principles, published by Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, NY, 1940, p. 270
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