Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A press actuated by steam-power acting directly or intermediately; specifically, a printing-press worked by steam.
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Examples
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To begin with the Wittenagemot, or meeting of the wise men, and to end with portraits of Mr. Roebuck's ancestors -- to say nothing of the fine imaginative sketch of the Member for Bath tilting, in the mode of Quixote with the steam-press of Printing-house-square -- will require the most extraordinary powers of condensation on the parts of the artists.
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New register marks are placed upon the key-transfer at top, bottom, and sides similar to those on the original (which are removed from the transfer), and these new marks now appear on all color transfers to serve as a guide to the steam-press printer in printing his edition.
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A poor thrashing-machine, or your Russian presser, they will break, but my steam-press they dont break.
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Before the invention of Printing, books were comparatively scarce; and, knowing as we do, how very difficult it is, even after the steam-press has been working for half a century, to make a collection of half a million books, we are forced to receive with great incredulity the accounts in old writers of the wonderful extent of ancient libraries.
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At one in New Orleans, driven by a thirty-five horse power steam-press, five hundred gallons of oil and five tons of oil cake a day were prepared.
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It was not smoky, and was quite quiet, save for the drone and stamp of the steam-press; there was grass, a gum-cistus and some flower - beds in the centre, and a gravel-walk all round, bordered by narrow edgings of flowers, and with fruit trees against the printing-house wall, and a Banksia and Wisteria against that of the house.
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At length the day arrived when the first newspaper steam-press was ready for use.
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Printers generally regarded the steam-press as altogether chimerical.
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Before the invention of Printing, books were comparatively scarce; and, knowing as we do, how very difficult it is, even after the steam-press has been working for half a century, to make a collection of half a million books, we are forced to receive with great incredulity the accounts in old writers of the wonderful extent of ancient libraries.
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At six in the morning John Walter went into the press-room, and announced to the men that the whole edition of "The Times" had been printed by steam during the night, and that thenceforward the steam-press would be regularly used.
Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money
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