Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . cheapestprint cost 3s. to 3s. 6d. the yard. In 1764 Fryer, Grecnliow, andNewbery projected a machine for printing, staining and colomingsilks, stuffs, linens, cottons, leather, or paper by copper cylinders,on which the colour was laid by other cylinders. In 1765 therewas a gentleman (indctinite) of Paris who printed 200 ells ofcalico per hour, or said that he did. The practical use ofcylinder printing in Eng
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . cheapestprint cost 3s. to 3s. 6d. the yard. In 1764 Fryer, Grecnliow, andNewbery projected a machine for printing, staining and colomingsilks, stuffs, linens, cottons, leather, or paper by copper cylinders,on which the colour was laid by other cylinders. In 1765 therewas a gentleman (indctinite) of Paris who printed 200 ells ofcalico per hour, or said that he did. The practical use ofcylinder printing in England began in 1783 with a machinemade by a Scotchman, Bell. The great lirm of Livesey, Har-greaves. Hall & Co. took it up in 1785. The machine was madewith six cylinders, on which the pattern, or part of the pattern,was cut. The colour was supplied to each cylinder by what iscalled the box doctor, and was removed from Avherc it was notrequired by an elastic steel blade. The machine could do asmuch as a hundred block-printers and a hundred tear-boysworking in the old style. Prints rapidly increased in elabora-tion and fell in price, and a great use was made of the WKAVlXd liV rOWER LOOMS
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