A short history of the art of printing in England (1877)
Powell, Arthur, b. 1853 · London : J. M. Powell, "Printers' Register" office · leaf 49
14,being driven by steam power and turning out 1,100 impressions an hour. In 1813, Bacon and Donkin made a machine in which the type was affixedto the sides of a prism and acted upon by an irregular-shaped impressioncylinder. It was very ingenious, but wrong in principle, and consequently… … COWPKR AND APlLEGATHS PERFECTING MACHINE. Koenigs machine was greatly simplified and improved by Messrs. Cowperand Applegath in 1818, and these ingenious men, in 1824, invented a perfecting COWPER AND APPLEOATH. 41 machine which is in principle the same as those now made by Messrs. Middletonand…
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