Mowry, William Augustus, 1829-1917, Mowry, Arthur May, 1862- joint author · New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett and company · leaf 258
hand with great labor, and after each impression the platen whichhad pressed the paper down upon the type had to be screwedup again with a bar. The presses which Benjamin Franklinused were made with wooden framework of the simplestpossible construction. Iron frames were first used in Eng-land just… … A FRANKLIN PRESS. 256 AMERICAN INVENTIONS AND INVENTORS he was given the job of printing forty sheets of a History ofthe Friends. The price offered was low, but Franklin andhis partner, Meredith, decided to accept it as a beginning. Franklin set up the type for a sheet each day, whileMeredith…
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