David Bruce (inventor)
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Biography
David Bruce was born on Dey Street in Lower Manhattan on February 6, 1802.[1][2]Template:Efn
In 1838, he invented the Pivotal Typecaster, and subsequently patented it in 1845.[3]
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.[4]