David Bruce (inventor)
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| birth_place = New York, New York
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| death_place = New York, New York
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| occupation = Printer, inventor
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David Bruce Jr. (February 6, 1802 – September 13, 1892) was a New York industrialist whose inventions revolutionized the printing industry.
Biography
David Bruce was born on Dey Street in Lower Manhattan on February 6, 1802.{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rw4hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA56&ci=502%2C346%2C412%2C898 |title=David Bruce, Jr., Inventor of the First Successful Typecasting Machine |first=Henry Lewis |last=Bullen |magazine=The Inland Printer |volume=69 |number=1 |page=64 |date=April 1922 |access-date=2023-02-14 |via=Google Books}}{{Cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hhLOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA375 |title=David Bruce |journal=The Mechanical News |volume=XXII |number=15 |pages=375–376 |date=1892-10-15 |access-date=2023-02-14 |via=Google Books}}{{Efn|Some sources give his birthplace as Wick, Scotland.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/118633994/death-of-david-bruce/ |title=Death of David Bruce |newspaper=The Brooklyn Daily Times |page=4 |date=1892-09-14 |access-date=2023-02-14 |via=Newspapers.com}} This may be a confusion with his father, who was born there in 1770.{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rw4hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA55&ci=89%2C253%2C372%2C85 |title=David Bruce, Jr., Inventor of the First Successful Typecasting Machine |first=Henry Lewis |last=Bullen |magazine=The Inland Printer |volume=69 |number=1 |page=63 |date=April 1922 |access-date=2023-02-14 |via=Google Books}}}}
In 1838, he invented the Pivotal Typecaster, and subsequently patented it in 1845.{{cite web
| url = http://historywired.si.edu/object.cfm?ID=398
| title = Pivotal Typecaster
| accessdate = 2007-02-04
| work = HistoryWired
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An example of the Pivotal Typecaster can be found in the Printing Museum of the firm of William Clowes Ltd. in Beccles in the English county of Suffolk.
Bruce died at his home in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on September 13, 1892.
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Category:19th-century American inventors
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