cylinder press
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cylinder press
An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
Example Sentences
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A part of Clarkson's "Life of William Penn" was printed on this press, and was the first book ever printed on a cylinder press.
From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Hitchcock, Frederick H.
The cylinder press has proclaimed universal education, and the dynamo crowned the brow of humanity with a coronet of light.
From The One Woman by Dixon, Thomas
One of the blocks split in printing and Jackson stated that thereafter he used the cylinder press exclusively.
From John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Kainen, Jacob
Joe bought a rebuilt cylinder press for fifteen hundred dollars and had it installed in the basement.
From The Nine-Tenths by Oppenheim, James
With the invention of the cylinder press by Frederick König was verified the saying that the art of printing had lent wings to words.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 by Various
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