| Author | Tonsing, Paul Martin.
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| Title | The power of the press : history and development of printing presses from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century / Paul Martin Tonsing.
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| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Published | Fort Worth, Tex. : P&T Pub. Co., c1998.
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| Description | 297, [10] p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-9669634-0-7 |
| ISBN | 978-0-9669634-0-3 |
| General Note | Includes index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: The beginning -- The Gutenberg press -- Benjamin Franklin -- The wooden press goes metallic -- The iron hand press -- The bed and platen press -- Koenig and the cylinder press -- Cylinder presses -- The cylinder press goes automatic -- The type revolving press -- The platen job press -- The rotary press : the beginning -- Further developments of the rotary press -- Rotary grows up -- Lithography-stone printing -- The advent of sheet-fed offset -- Sheet-fed offset overtakes letterpress -- Here comes-- web-fed offsets : the beginning -- Web offset gains dominence [sic] -- Flexographic printing -- Gravure : a different slant on printing -- The specialty field -- Business forms presses -- Toy/desk-top hand presses -- Ye olde proof press -- Digital presses.
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| Subjects | Printing machinery and supplies -- History.
Printing presses -- History.
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| LC Card Number | 2001-273096 |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: Z 249 T666 1998
mq234288: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 141121] |
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