An old engraving showing a Hoe’s type revolving printing press of the mid-1800s – this version is a two cylinder one. It is from a book of the 1890s on Victorian discoveries and inventions during the 1800s. Richard Hoe (1812 –1886) was an American inventor from New York City. He is best known for the invention in the 1840s of a rotary (revolving) printing press, where type and illustrations were placed on a cylinder that could print much faster than the older, flat-bed printing presses. In 1870 Hoe developed a rotary press that printed both sides of a page in a single operation.
An old engraving showing a Hoe’s type revolving printing press of the mid-1800s – this version is a two cylinder one. It is from a book of the 1890s on Victorian discoveries and inventions during the 1800s. Richard Hoe (1812 –1886) was an American inventor from New York City. He is best known for the invention in the 1840s of a rotary (revolving) printing press, where type and illustrations were placed on a cylinder that could print much faster than the older, flat-bed printing presses. In 1870 Hoe developed a rotary press that printed both sides of a page in a single operation, what he called the ‘Hoe web perfecting press’. Hoe's press used a continuous roll of paper five miles long, which was put through the machine at the rate of 800 feet (240 m) a minute. It produced 18,000 newspapers an hour and was used the first time by the New York Tribune.
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