The Kanzas news., 1857-10-17
Hoes Grand Type-revolving Press.

Hoes Grand Type-revolying Press.
Perhaps no invention of modern times has
worked SO great revolution In art as the
introduction of Hoes Cylinder Presses. 1t
at once opened new and vast fields for the
spread of the influence of the press. 1t was
new revelation to the world of the mighty
power of printing. From the time William
Caxton set up the FIRST printing press in
England at Westminster, in All, and print
ed the first book, according to Dibden-
''Glanville's De Proprietatidus rerun," to
the present time, there has been no such ac-
eession to the art of printing as the Hoe
Cylinder Press.
Amid wonderful but gradual improve
ments In the greatest of all arts-in the cut
ting of type and in other aecessories-the
printing press, which was originally of the
rudest construction, appears to have been
overlooked, and hardly any Improvements
were made upon it up the close of the eigh-
teenth century, when the ingenuity of in
ventors was aroused in that direction. The
Earl of Stanhope's press was in general use
in 1906. The Columbian press, of Clymer,
was introduced in 1914; and the Albion
press, an improvement on it, came into use
few years later. Printing by steam pow
er was first executed in England, at the Lon
don Times office, in 1914. Cowper's and
Applegate's rollers for distributing the ink
upon the type was brought into use in 1917.
Vast Improvements have been made in the
United States within few years, both in
hand and steam presses. This is the brief
historical record of the printing press
How meagre history for the great engine
of civilization
Men not yet arrived at middle age can re-
member the old lever press, at which Jour-
neymen labored and sweated in pulling to-
ken an hour; they have had experience, too,
with the linking balls by which the ink was
distributed, and know how to appreciate the
wondpus rapidity of Hoes press, and the
great relief afforded by the rollers, as well
as to sympathise with ali printers of former
times in their laborious work.
But the press, as originally constructed,
and as retained for nearly three centuries
and half, slow as It's operation was, suf-
feed for the supply, and fully satisfied the
demand of the reading world. 1t was not
until the age of steam was ushered in, that
the necessity of more efficient printing press
es were felt and recognized With steam
came the era of railroads, and then followed
the electric telegraph, changing the entire |
condition of things, and making the strong
est demands upon the agencies for multiply |
ing and spreading intelligence.
In all great junctures, the right man is
providentially raised up to fill an appointed
place. With the hour came the man. When
the demands of the age required printing
machine of unexampled power, capable of
throwing off thousands of sheets per hour,
Mr.. Hoe was found in his appointed place.
He was prepared to provide for the existing
wants. His creative genius had brought
into existence that very power that was
looked for. 1t sprang from his prolific brain.
a perfect machine, complete in all its ap-
pointments. And though improvements |
have been made upon some of its details, |
the principal remains, and will remain, as
near an approach to perfection as it is pos
sible for merely human work to arrive at.
The superiority of Hoes presses is known
and recognized the world over. It would /!
be in vain to attempt to supersede them
Sheets are thrown from them almost as rap |
idly as the electric spark is flashed across |
the wires. They work as though they were |
endowed with intelligence and exulted in |
their Office of supplying the world with in
telligence in unlimited and hitherto unknown |
quantities. Every principal printing house
in Europe and America is furnished with |
one or more of these marvellous machines, |
or is making preparations for them. No
leading paper would be complete without |
them. Messrs. Hoe & Co., to supply the |
European demand, have been obliged to es-
tablish branch of their business in Eng
land, and they are now constructing in MAN.
chester two 10 cylinder presses for the Lon
don Times, one cylinder for the London
Morning Star, penny sheet, and one 6 cyl |
inder for the Manchester Times.
At their factory in New York they are
one 6 cylinder press for the
London illustrated Neacs. one cylinder for
the Manchester Guardian, one 10 cylinder |
for the New York Times, one 10 cylinder |
for the New York Tribune, one 6 cylinder |
for the New York Stats Zeitang, by Mrs. |
Youle, which is to be put up in the Crystal
Palace, and one cylinder for the Boston
Herald
1t is but ten years since the first type re-
yolying presses were made by Messrs. Hoe |
d Co., for the Philadelphia Ledger. Be-
hold what revolution has been brought
about in that brief space of time !-BOston
Herald.
Uhor H. oboIo,o xx,oS ~ .fs xzrs-sf a., 1910