The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 103
e uppermost THE PEOGKESS OF PRINTING. on some solid support, and then the paper presseddown on it by a platform lowered by a screw passingthrough a support above. What was needed was some-thing which would aid in the distribution of printedmatter; make it more rapid, and less laborious. Thenthere… … ANCIENT PRINTING OFFICE. remained for the nineteenth century to make the presswhat it is to-day. Various kinds of hand-presses succeeded one another,but it was not till near the close of the last century thatthe modern power-press was discovered, or invented.There were the Stanhope press, the…
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