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 46
holson patented a printing-machine, of whichthe chief points were the following: The type, beingrubbed or scraped narrower toward the bottom, was tobe fixed upon a cyUnder, in order, as it were, to radiatefrom the centre of it. This cyUnder, with its type, was THE PRINTING-MACHINE. 41 to revolve in… … The EoUer. passing between the type and impression cylinders.{Hansard) Such was the first printing-machine: it wasnever brought into use, although most of Nicholsonsplans were, when modified, adopted by after-constructors. Konig, a German, conceived nearly the same idea; andmeeting with the…
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