April 24, 2024
1856 invention: a TYPEWRITER forerunner - "Hand Printing Machine" - Philadelphia
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“Cooper’s Hand PrintingMachine.”Scientific AmericanDec. 6, 1856This is an issue of Scientific American published over 160 years ago . The paper’s masthead described it at the time as “The Advocate of Industry, and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements.” It measures 11 x 15.5 inches in size, and is 8 pages long. It came from a bound volume and has typical minor disbinding marks at the spine, plus some browning from age (see photos); but is still in very good and attractive condition overall.Scientific American was a weekly covering science for the general educated public, providing the latest news of pre-Civil War technology and invention. On the front page of this issue is an illustrated article on a new “Machine for Cutting Files,” which had recently received a patent in England; and the back page has an article on “Manny’s Reaping Machine,” with an engraving of that new farm machinery.However, the most interesting article is an advancement in the development of a mechanical writing printing/device, with a story on the paper’s fourth page reporting on a new machine that was a predecessor of the modern typewriter. It is titled “ Hand Printing Machine,” and is illustrated with an attractive wood engraving of “COOPER’S HAND PRINTING MACHINE.” This invention was patented earlier in 1856 by John Cooper of Philadelphia,
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