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 .. . the limited capacity of the inventive genius of ourgreat-grandfathers. It was about 1SL>(.) when the Columbian gave way to the Washington press,and this was used for some lime for fine book-work. The feature of it wasan automatic inking roller attachment. THE ART PRESERVATIVE 545 While the Was
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 .. . the limited capacity of the inventive genius of ourgreat-grandfathers. It was about 1SL>(.) when the Columbian gave way to the Washington press,and this was used for some lime for fine book-work. The feature of it wasan automatic inking roller attachment. THE ART PRESERVATIVE 545 While the Washington press had the capacity for producing fine work, itwas deficient in the speed required for meeting the demand then growing forbooks and newspapers. Then the printers turned to a cylinder press whichhad appeared in the last decade of the eighteenth century. The London Times had taken hold of it, and brought it to such a condition that itsspeed was raised to something like a thousand impressions an hour. Konig,a native of Saxony, in 1815, produced a press for printing both sides of thesheet. It resembled two single presses placed with their cylinders towardeach other, the sheet being carried by tapes from the first to the second cylin-der. Its capacity was 750 sheets, both sides, an THE COLUMBIAN PRESS. Cambridge University about this time was furnished with a press in whichthe types were placed on the four sides of a prism, the paper being applied byanother prism. It proved unsuccessful. In this press, however, were firstintroduced the inking rollers formed of a combination of glue and are made of these two materials to this day. Cowper, an Englishman, in 1815, introduced curved stereotyped plates andfixed them to a .cylinder. Two place cylinders and two impression cylinderswere 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 i
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