The roll of paper, drawn by nipping rollers, next flies through to the cylinder on which the stereotype plates are fixed, so as to form the four pages of the ordinary sheet of The Times; there it is lightly pressed against the type and printed; then it passes downwards round another cylinder covered with cloth, and reversed; next to the second type-covered roller, where it takes the impression exactly on the other side of the remaining four pages.

It next reaches one of the most ingenious contrivances of the invention--the cutting machinery, by means of which the paper is divided by a quick knife into the 5500 sheets of which the entire web consists.

The tapes hurry the now completely printed newspaper up an inclined plane, from which the divided sheets are showered down in a continuous stream by an oscillating frame, where they are met by two boys, who adjust the sheets as they fall.

The reel of four miles long is printed and divided into newspapers complete in about twenty-five minutes.
The machine is almost entirely self-acting, from the pumping-up of the ink into the ink-box out of the cistern below stairs, to the registering of the numbers as they are printed in the manager's room above.

It is always difficult to describe a machine in words.