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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
pape on the type asm the old style, it was fastened to a cylinder which
prim sonr
formland ,nade the impression. This press could then
print 800 copies an hour. In 1846 Richard M. Hoe of New York built
a press for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, on which the type was fas
tened to a cylinder which revolved and touched other cylinders on which
■e paper was fastened. With this press 8,000 copies could lie made
every hour. Soon an improvement was added by which 20,000 copies
could be made. Up to this time no newspaper had a very large circula
tion, for sufficient copies could not be printed in a day, but from that
time on many newspapers were sent abroad.
The Saturday Evening Post, which was brought into existence by Ben-
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172\ P rinted from 200 to 240 eight-page papers in a
daj . Today the same publication prints approximately 150 million pages
in a week, containing about ten times as much reading matter and its
circulation is easily 143 times as great.
To give you some idea of the speed at which a modern newspaper press
runs, I will say that in Boston a press prints and folds 90,000 eight-page
papers each hour. By reducing this number to find its rate per minute
1,500 will be our answer. Divide 1,500 by 60 and we find that 25 papers
re printed each second. At one end of this press is a large roll of paper
oi t'C ; ti’nS t!‘rough the machine at a rate of 32 miles an hour and comes
out at the other end printed and folded.
A ^ he/ 1Ze the PreSS haS changed edually as much as has the speed
A modern Goss press stands about 28 feet high, is 14 feet wide
and a little more than 50 feet long.
For the setting of type machines have been made to do all but think
w rile the great devices that print the papers and books of the present
m T am°nf ‘he 'nOSt marve,ous contrivances ever conceived by man
Making colored pictures has become a most wonderful p rin te d
lump . The process has been so thoroughly mastered that to pro-
me“ t a BPesidUretb “ h
na“ ' ral CO'° rS ° f " fe is a Comnion “chieve-
f a X • eS‘deS,thlS' pnntlng as a civilizing force and an educational
factor ,s second to none. In the time of Columbus, when the art was
first practiced, a new impulse was given to navigation and exploration'
Thos” 6 .g.e .ga" ,ed by men has ever si"ce been collected and compiled
Those wishing to pursue any branch of science have only to read and
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gaThe t y j XPerin,®nt and " ‘vestigation, and thus the Z r V p r o Z 'e Z s '
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me‘h<Xl ° f «¡ving information «,rough
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exce ed by no other system of communication The
egraph and the telephone are noted for the celerity with which they
convey news, but printed matter finds its way into regions that are to'