Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts. A book for old and young (1860)
Timbs, John, 1801-1875 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 45
greatly increased. Lord Stanhope also madesome improvements in the process of stereotyping, andin the construction of locks for canals; he invented aningenious machine for performing arithmetical opera-tions ; during great part of his life he studied the actionof the electric fluid; and in lYYO he… … The Hand Press. The principle of the^tanhope press has been followedout by several subsequent inventors, and improvementsof mechanical detail introduced, tending to the economyof time and labor, and to precision of workmanship. Theprinting-press, however, proved inadequate to a rate ofproduction…
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