A short history of the printing press and of the improvements in printing machinery from the time of Gutenberg up to the present day
A Short History of the Printing Press was published in New York in 1902 by Robert Hoe, head of the firm of R. Hoe and Company, the leading American maker of printing machinery. Hoe begins with the simple wooden screw press Gutenberg used around 1450 and follows the slow improvements of the next centuries, the first iron presses, the cylinder machines of the nineteenth century and the steam-driven rotary presses that made mass-circulation newspapers possible, many of them developed by his own company. Illustrated with engravings of the machines, it is a brief, proud history written from inside the industry. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the opening pages are free.
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