The types were arranged in
segments of a circle, each segment forming a frame that could be
fixed on the cylinder. These printing machines were made with
from two to ten subsidiary cylinders. The first presses sent by
Messrs. Hoe & Co. to this country were for Lloyd's Weekly
Newspaper, and were of the six-cylinder size. These were
followed by two ten-cylinder machines, ordered by the present Mr.
Walter, for The Times. Other English newspaper proprietors--both
in London and the provinces--were supplied with the machines, as
many as thirty-five having been imported from America between
1856 and 1862. It may be mentioned that the two ten-cylinder
Hoes made for The Times were driven at the rate of thirty-two
revolutions per minute, which gives a printing rate of 19,200 per
hour, or about 16,000 including stoppages.
Much of the ingenuity exercised both in the Applegath and Hoe
Machines was directed to the "chase," which had to hold securely
upon its curved face the mass of movable type required to form a
page. And now the enterprise of the proprietor of The Times
again came to the front. The change effected in the art of
newspaper-printing, by the process of stereotypes, is scarcely
inferior to that by which the late Mr. Walter applied steam-power
to the printing press, and certainly equal to that by which the
rotary press superseded the reciprocatory action of the flat
machine.
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