On the 3rd of January, 1818, after he had left England, Bensley published a letter in the Literary Gazette, in which he speaks of the printing machine as his own, without mentioning a word of Koenig.

The 'British Encyclopaedia,' in describing the inventors of the printing machine, omitted the name of Koenig altogether.

The 'Mechanics Magazine,' for September, 1847, attributed the invention to the Proprietors of The Times, though Mr.Walter himself had said that his share in the event had been "only the application of the discovery;" and the late Mr.Bennet Woodcroft, usually a fair man, in his introductory chapter to 'Patents for Inventions in Printing,' attributes the merit to William Nicholson's patent (No.

1748), which, he said, "produced an entire revolution in the mechanism of the art." In other publications, the claims of Bacon and Donkin were put forward, while those of the real inventor were ignored.

The memoir of Koenig by Mr.Richard Taylor, in the 'Philosophical Magazine,' was honest and satisfactory; and should have set the question at rest.
It may further be mentioned that William Nicholson,--who was a patent agent, and a great taker out of patents, both in his own name and in the names of others,--was the person employed by Koenig as his agent to take the requisite steps for registering his invention.