The compositors and the pressmen purposely battered the letters in the absence of their employers.

In consequence of this interference Ged was ruined, and died in poverty.
The art had, however, been born, and could not be kept down.

It was revived in France, in Germany, and in America.

Fifty years after the discovery of Ged, Tilloch and Foulis, of Glasgow, patented a similar invention, without knowing anything of what Ged had done; and after great labour and many experiments, they produced plates, the impressions from which could not be distinguished from those taken from the types from which they were cast.

Some years afterwards, Lord Stanhope, to whom the art of printing is much indebted, greatly improved the art of stereotyping, though it was still quite inapplicable to newspaper printing.