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Title: 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 ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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swere soon afterward worked together on one press by Cowper. printing bothsides of the sheet at the rate of one thousand copies an hour. This seems to have been the period when inventive skill began to assertitself in the printing press. The educational advancement of the people in35 546 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY this country and in Europe, with the lack of facility for furnishing informa-tion of the campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte, the desire for facts regardingthe events transpiring in England, France, and Germany, the meagreness of thedetails which had been furnished of the conflict between Great Britain andthe United States in 1812, convinced the publishers of newspapers in thiscountry and abroad that the laws of supply and demand were not equally bal-anced. The outcome of this was a press constructed to print both sides ofthe sheet from type, and was soon followed by the introduction of fourimpression cylinders. These were applied to the reciprocating bed to carry
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WASHINGTON HAND PRESS. the type for one side of the sheet, the sheets being fed from four feedingboards, the impression cylinders alternately rising and falling, so that twosheets were printed during the passage one way, the other two on the returnpassage. A pair of inking rollers between the impression cylinders obtainedink from the reciprocating board. The capacity of this press was five thousand an hour, and this was re-garded as a feat worthy of public mention, record of it being made in thenewspapers of that period in a way which shows the general interest in thework. The first power-press used in the United States was made by Daniel THE ART PRESERVATIVE 547 Treadwell, of Boston, in 1822. Two of them were used by the Bible andTract societies. The London Times had succeeded in applying steam to the movementof the printing press as early as 1814 — a cylinder press being brought intorequisition, to the use of which they had the exclusive right. Following the Treadwell press, about

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