. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . got a patent for it in 1861, and paten
. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . got a patent for it in 1861, and patented itin England in 1862. The idea has been taken up abroad byWalter of The London Times and others; but the American inventors stillretain the lead in the construction of the machine. Hoe & Company andCampbell have both perfected web-presses of their own, which are in somerespects better than Bullocks. The principle upon which these presses areHoe and Bui- made is to feed the paper to the press from a huge roll, or web,lock presses upon which there is wound up from three to five miles of paper,described. Lightning-like shears in the press cut off the sheets from theroll, either before they are printed, as in the Bullock press, or afterwards, as inthe others. The forms are stereotyped, and mounted on two large rollers;those for one side of the newspaper on one roller, and those for the other sideof the sheet on the other. The paper goes to one roller, and receives theimpression of one set of forms, and then goes to the other, and is printed on. STANSBURY HAND-PRESS. OF THE UNITED STATES. the other side, andpasses on to the fly,to be delivered tothe men who carrythe papers to thefolding-room. TheHoe presses have acapacity of 18,000impressions withfolder an hour, and25,000 without thisattachment. TheCampbell press hasa capacity of 35,000,but is generally op-erated with a fold-ing-machine, whichreduces its workto 10,000 an advantage ofthis style of press isnot so much in
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