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Art. XVI.—Notice of Wood’s Inking Machine.* 
Or all the inventions. produced by the ingenuity of man, none has 
had so extensive and beneficial an influence as the Press; and any 
improvement in a machine so widely affecting the interests of society, 
cannot be considered unimportant. Accordingly, the history of print- 
ing, from the rudely carved block and simple press of the inventor 
of the art, to the movable types and complicated machinery of the 
present day, would be found at once curious and interesting. But, 
though a general view of the ‘progress of this chief of arts, could 
not be unacceptable, it is proposed, at present, merely to invite 
public attention to a machine which will perhaps be considered not 
one of the least important of its improvements. 
* This Journal is printed on a press, to which one of the above named machines 
is attached.— Ed. 
