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Title: 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 ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ard. The capacity of this press was five thousand an hour, and this was re-garded as a feat worthy of public mention, record of it being made in thenewspapers of that period in a way which shows the general interest in thework. The first power-press used in the United States was made by Daniel THE ART PRESERVATIVE 547 Treadwell, of Boston, in 1822. Two of them were used by the Bible andTract societies. The London Times had succeeded in applying steam to the movementof the printing press as early as 1814 — a cylinder press being brought intorequisition, to the use of which they had the exclusive right. Following the Treadwell press, about 1825, came the improvements ofSamuel and Isaac Adams, and the general use of the press which is stillworked in the book offices of this country and Great Britain. It was onone of these Adams presses, in 1863, that was printed the book written byDr. Elisha Kent Kane, describing his second expedition in search of SirJohn Franklin, the Arctic explorer.
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OLD WOODEN FRAME ADAMS BED AND PLATEN BOOK PKESS. It was found that the Adams press could be used for newspaper as wellas exceedingly fine book-work, its construction admitting of the use of platesor type, and its speed such as nearly came up to the requirements of thatperiod. In this press a feed board holds the paper, which is fed by handto a second board or tympan, having points to make holes in the sheet toregulate the second side. The type rests upon a bed which is raised bystraightening a toggle-joint against the upper plates. The fountain for the ink is carried at one end of the press. The inkingrollers pass twice over the form. The paper is caught by grippers, carriedin a frame called a frisket over the form (or type), receives the impressionand is carried by tapes to a fly frame in the rear which delivers it to thesheet board. With the two-, three-, and four-cylinder presses, the Adams press, steam 548 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX CENTURY power and various improvements in

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