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Men of Invention and Industry

CHAPTER VII
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The pamphlet enclosed by Sir Rowland Hill in the above letter is entitled 'The Rotary Printing Machine.' It is very clever and ingenious, like everything he did.

But it was still left for some one else to work out the invention into a practical working printing-press.

The subject is fully referred to in the 'Life of Sir Rowland Hill' (i.

224,525).

In his final word on the subject, Sir Rowland "gladly admits the enormous difficulty of bringing a complex machine into practical use," a difficulty, he says, which "has been most successfully overcome by the patentees of the Walter Press.".


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