A short history of the printing press and of the improvements in printing machinery from the time of Gutenberg up to the present day

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Author: Hoe, Robert,1839-1909
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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 and of the improvements in printing machinery from the time of Gutenberg up to the present day

€6,26

A short history of the printing press and of the improvements in printing machinery from the time of Gutenberg up to the present day

€6,26
Author: Hoe, Robert,1839-1909
Format: eBook
Language: English

A short history of the printing press and of the improvements in printing machinery from the time of Gutenberg up to the present day

The simple form of wooden press, worked with a screw by means of a movable bar, continued in use for about one hundred and fifty years, or until the early part of the seventeenth century, without any material change. The forms of type were placed upon the same wooden and sometimes stone beds, incased in frames called coffins, moved in and out laboriously by hand, and after each impression the platen had to be screwed up with the bar so that the paper which had been printed upon it might be removed and hung up to dry. The first recorded improvements in this press were made by William Jensen Blaew, a printer of Amsterdam, some time about 1620. They consisted in passing the spindle of the screw through a square block which was guided in the wooden frame, and from this block the platen was suspended by wires or cords; the block, or box, preventing any twist in the platen, and insuring a more equal motion to the screw. He also placed a device upon the press for rolling in and out the bed, and added a new form of iron hand lever for turning the screw. Blaews press was introduced into England, and used there as well as on the continent, being substantially the [7] same as that Benjamin Franklin worked upon as a journeyman in London, early in the last century. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 63545
Author: Hoe, Robert
Release Date: Oct 25, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English

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