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A short history of the art of printing in England (1877)

Powell, Arthur, b. 1853 · London : J. M. Powell, "Printers' Register" office · leaf 50

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f the presentday. It was Mr. Cowper also who devised the exceedingly simple yet effectiveinking arrangements now used on all non-rotary cylinder machines. In 1827, Messrs. Cowper and Applegath made a machine for The Times.It had four impression cylinders capable of producing 6000 impressions… … hoes six-feeder machine. In this machine the type cylinder was made to revolve on a vertical axis,and was surrounded with eight impression cylinders, into each of which thesheets were fed from horizontal feeding boards. It was capable of making12,000 impressions an hour. In 1857, a still more…

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