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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 574

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-try, how astounding to him wouldbe the revelation ! No more thewooden types or the unsymmetri-rical metal pieces; no more thewooden hand-press, the wood en-gravings, the ink balls, and theprocess of printing a few hundredsheets an hour. The terrific rapid-ity with which the newspapers areturned… … 544 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY same time; the setting of type by machines seemingly possessed of humanintelligence; the rapidity and the simplicity of making stereotype plates;the dexterity of forming ordinary metal types into all kinds of forms; themillions of books, — secular and…

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