History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back TYPE-CASTING MACHINES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF FONTS AND MANUALS FOR THEIR USE, PUBLISHED IN THE LATE 19th – EARLY 20th CENTURIES N.G. Kuzmina Type-casting equipment of the system of Fouche, Kusterman and others was used in many large printing houses, as well as in the type foundries of O.I. Leman and others in Saint Petersburg, in Moscow. The manuals described the types of equipment and methods for casting letters in different sizes (skittles). Keywords: type foundry, machines, letters, skittles, manuals. DOI: 10.25791/intstg.7.2023.1434 Pp. 49-55.