Gutenberg printing press biography book

In 1436 Johaness Gutenberg, a German goldsmith, began designing a machine capable of producing pages of text at an incredible speed—a product that he hoped would offset losses from a failed attempt to sell metal mirrors. By 1440 Gutenberg had established the basics of his printing press including the use of a mobile, reusable set of type, and within ten years he had constructed a working prototype of the press. In 1454 Gutenberg put his press to commercial use, producing thousands of indulgences for the Church. The following year he printed his famous 42-line Bible, the first book printed on a moveable type press in the West.¹

Gutenberg's press was the combined effort of several discoveries and inventions. The printing press was built around the traditional screw press, a precursor to today's drill press, with an added matrix on which individually-cast letters and symbols could be arranged to form the desired text. This moveable type design allowed pages of text to be quickly assembled from a pre-cast selection of letters and symbols rather than laboriously carved from a block of wood as in the block printing method. Gutenberg also created a unique oil-based ink which transferred from his metal type to the printing substrate much more effectiv

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A Short History of
The Printing Press

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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

FROM A MEDAL BY SCHARFF OF VIENNA

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED FOR
ROBERT HOE
NEW YORK
1902

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE PRINTING PRESS	5
THE EARLIEST FORM OF THE PRINTING PRESS	6
THE BLAEW PRESS	7
STANHOPE PRESS	8
CLYMER’S COLUMBIAN PRESS	8
PETER SMITH HAND PRESS	9
WASHINGTON HAND PRESS	10
TREADWELL’S WOODEN-FRAME BED AND PLATEN POWER PRESS	11
ISAAC ADAM’S BED AND PLATEN PRESS	14
SINGLE SMALL CYLINDER PRESS	18
DOUBLE CYLINDER PRESS	18
SINGLE LARGE CYLINDER PRESS	19
STOP CYLINDER LITHOGRAPHIC PRESS	26
ROTARY ZINCOGRAPHIC OR ALUMINUM PRESS	27
TWO-COLOR ROTARY ZINCOGRAPHIC OR ALUMINUM PRESS	30
FOUR CYLINDER ROTARY TYPE-REVOLVING PRESS	31
TEN CYLINDER ROTARY TYPE-REVOLVING PRESS	31
APPLEGATH’S TYPE-REVOLVING PRESS	40
BULLOCK PRESS	42
LONDON TIMES ROTARY MACHINE	46
FIRST HOE WEB PRESS	50
DOUBLE SUPPLEMENT PRESS	51
QUADRUPLE PRESS	59
STRAIGHT-LINE PRESS	59
SEXTUPLE PRESS	62
APPLETON ROTARY BOOK PRESS	68
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Author	Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
LoC No.	03008887
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