Great facts : a popular history and description of the most remarkable inventions during the present century (1860)
Bakewell, Frederick C. (Frederick Collier), 1800-1869 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 255
in less thanthree seconds, seems like the work of magic. Tocopy that • number of words, thus printed in threeseconds, would occupy a rapid penman forty days,working ten hours a day. Great as are the printing powers of these ma-chines of Mr. Applegaths, they have been surpassedmore recently by one… … altering its direction. As many as twenty thousandimpressions in an liour have been produced by the 240 GREAT FACTS. American machine, but it is not yet sufficiently per-fected to be brought into regular use. In another part of the Times establishment thereis an ingenious machine for wetting the…
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