🍧 — Industrial Revolution (PPT 2) Flashcards
What is the process that involves inking metal type and debossing it onto the surface of the paper?
Letterpress
Durable, light, and less than half as expensive as large metal types.
Woodtype
Who began experimenting with carved wooden letters and was eventually called WOODTYPE?
Darius Wells
What design shop is noted for its use of wood type and woodcut illustrations?
Hatch Show Print located in Nashville.
What were the design decisions regarding word length?
Long words were condensed and short words were expanded.
Who is Friedrich Koenig?
He obtained a patent in March 1810 for his steam-powered printing press.
What was the printing capacity of Friedrich Koenig’s steam-powered printing press?
Prints 400 sheets per hour, far more than 250 sheets on the Stanhope handpress.
What did The Times in London commission Friedrich Koenig to create?
A steam-powered printing press with two double-cylinder mechanisms.
Who is William Cowper?
He obtained a patent for a printing press using curved stereotyped plates.
What was the printing capacity of William Cowper’s press?
It could print on both sides of a sheet simultaneously and achieved up to 2,400 impressions per hour.
By the middle of the 19th century, how many copies could presses produce per hour?
25,000 copies per hour.
Who perfected the Linotype Machine in 1886?
Ottman Mergenthaler
What was the price of newspapers increased to?
From 3 cents to 1-2 pennies.
