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Linn Boyd Benton, a Common card
Linn Boyd Benton was an American typeface designer and inventor of technology for producing metal type.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 48
- DEF
- 22
- Power
- 70
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,600
Power 70 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The son of Congressman Charles S. Benton, he was named for his father's friend Linn Boyd.
- After starting a career as a book-keeper and working at two newspapers, he became joint owner of Benton, Waldo & Co. Type Foundry and rapidly developed a thorough understanding of typefounding methods that led him to develop new technologies.
- An 1886 profile described him as "an intelligent, entertaining, unostentatious gentleman, a mechanical genius".
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Linn Boyd Benton article was read about 1,600 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 48 and blocks with 22: each hit it takes is cut by 9 %.
How to get Linn Boyd Benton
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Linn Boyd Benton (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : R. H. Sommer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
