Triumphs of invention and discovery in art and science (1876)
Fyfe, J. Hamilton (James Hamilton), 1837-1880 · London ; Edinburgh ; New York : T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row · leaf 42
onoured as becamethen* mission. III. THE PRINTING MACHINE. Between the rude screw-press of Gutenberg orCaxton, slow and laboured in its working, to thefirst-class printing machine of our own day, throwingoff its fifteen or eighteen thousand copies of a largefour-page journal in an hour, what a… … WILLIAM CAXTON. Pace 3a THK AKT OK rUINTINT.. 33 printing press, the name of Earl Stanhoi)e is chietlyassociated; but, although when he had put thefinishing touches to its construction, immensely su])e-rior to all former machines, it was unavailable forrapid printing. In relation to the demand for…
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