Harper & Brothers on Franklin Square, New York City, 1878 (14572693269)

Harper & Brothers on Franklin Square, New York City, 1878
Identifier: industrialhistor00boll (find matches)
Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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the page of type Economy ofin type-metal. By making a mould of the page, as many plates stereotyp-can be cast from it as may be desired, and thus several presses ing«an be employed at once. The plates have, in addition, this advantage : theycan be stored up in the lumber-room, and kept for years, if necessary; sothat, if a new edition of the almanac, pamphlet, or book, is desired, it can beprinted without encountering the cost of composition. 362 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY No books or papers were printed, in the early days of America, in sufficientnumbers to justify a resort to the process of stereotyping. After the war ofFirst stereo- x^12 printing increased, and the need of stereotyping was felt,typing estab- David and George Bruce added to their printing-business in New-York City a stereotyping establishment in 1813. It was the first inthe country. Since that time, scarce any large book-printing or newspaperestablishment has failed to add a stereotype-room to the resources of thebusiness.
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The method adopted by Mr. Bruce was to oil the surface of the page oftype to be copied, and pour upon it plaster of Paris in a liquid form. ThisBruces substance, when wet, hardens in a few minutes, and makes anmethod. excellent mould. The moulds, having set, were taken off, driedin a furnace, put in a casting-box, and dipped into melted stereotype-metal.The metal, having cooled, was taken from the mould. It was carefully ex-amined for defective letters, and corrected by chiselling out the bad letters, OF THE UNITED STATES. 063 and inserting type. It was then planed on the back, and nailed to a woodenblock for the press. This method has been practised in the United Statesdown to the present day. It is, however, rapidly going out of use. It longago disappeared from the large daily newspaper-offices, and has been replacedin most of the large publication-houses by another system. In the great newspaper-offices the new method is called the papier-mache process. A few hours before the pages