The steam powered rotary printing press, in…
1843 CE
William Nicholson had filed a 1790 patent for a rotary press.
The rotary press itself is an evolution of the cylinder press, also patented by William Nicholson, invented by Beaucher of France in the 1780s and by Friedrich Koenig in the early nineteenth century.
Rotary drum printing is invented by Hoe in 1843: type is placed on a revolving cylinder, a design that can print much faster than the old flatbed printing press.
It will receive U.S. Patent 5,199 in 1847, and will be placed in commercial use the same year.
Arunah Shepherdson Abell, publisher of The Sun in Baltimore, will be among the first to buy it and put it into use.
In its early days, it will variously be called the "Hoe lightning press," and "Hoe's Cylindrical-Bed Press."
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