THE PRINTING PRESS. 



CHAPTER II. 



23. Machine of The Times of 1814. 24. Improvement of this. 25. 

 Present printing machine of The Times. 26. Marinoni's news- 

 paper printing machine. 27. Marinoni's book-printing machine. 

 28. Newspapers. 29. Reporters. 30. Court newsman. 31. Foreign 

 correspondent. 32. Newspaper statistics. 



23. THE first machines constructed upon this improved prin- 

 ciple for printing newspapers, were erected at the printing office 

 of The Times newspaper, and it was announced in that journal, 

 on the 28th of November, 1814, that the sheet which was then 

 placed in the hands of the reader, was the first printed by steam- 

 impelled machinery. 



By this, with some improvements which the apparatus received 

 soon afterwards, the effective power of the printing-press was 

 augmented in a very high proportion. With the hand-presses 

 previously in use, not more, as we have seen, than 250 sheets 

 could be printed on one side in an hour. Each of the two 

 machines erected at The Times office produced 1800 impressions 

 per hour. 



24. Further Improvement. The power of the printing- 

 machine constructed upon this principle was soon after aug- 

 mented, by increasing the number of printing- cylinders to 



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