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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress (1901)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, A. J. Holman & co · leaf 580

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ichhad appeared in the last decade of the eighteenth century. The London Times had taken hold of it, and brought it to such a condition that itsspeed was raised to something like a thousand impressions an hour. Kbnig,a native of Saxony, in 1815, produced a press for printing both sides of thesheet.… … THE COTATMRrAN PRESS. Cambridge University about this time was furnished with a press in winchthe types were placed on the four sides of a prism, the paper being applied byanother prism. It proved unsuccessful. In this press, however, were firstintroduced the inking rollers formed of a combination…

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