These were followed by two ten-cylinder machines, ordered by the present Mr.Walter, for The Times.

Other English newspaper proprietors--both in London and the provinces--were supplied with the machines, as many as thirty-five having been imported from America between 1856 and 1862.

It may be mentioned that the two ten-cylinder Hoes made for The Times were driven at the rate of thirty-two revolutions per minute, which gives a printing rate of 19,200 per hour, or about 16,000 including stoppages.
Much of the ingenuity exercised both in the Applegath and Hoe Machines was directed to the "chase," which had to hold securely upon its curved face the mass of movable type required to form a page.

And now the enterprise of the proprietor of The Times again came to the front.

The change effected in the art of newspaper-printing, by the process of stereotypes, is scarcely inferior to that by which the late Mr.Walter applied steam-power to the printing press, and certainly equal to that by which the rotary press superseded the reciprocatory action of the flat machine.
Stereotyping has a curious history.