death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name
9 february 1871 stepney 17 june 1788 augustus applegath
 augustus applegath
augustus applegath

`` often appears mis-spelt as `` augustus applegarth '' '' augustus applegath -lrb- 17 june 1788 - 9 february 1871 -rrb- was the inventor of the vertical printing-press .
he was born in stepney but carried out most of his work in the dartford and crayford areas of kent .
inventions included methods of silk printing , a new method of printing banknotes and the printing machines on which the times newspaper was printed in the mid nineteenth century - the ` four-feeder ' printed 5000 copies of the paper per hour , and from 1848 the rotary eight-feeder printed 8000 copies per hour .
