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This is especially marked in rapid color-printing, and in the successors of inadequate typesetting-machines in the linotype, the monotype, the typograph, etc. Most wonderful of all, perhaps, is the improved printing-press itself, in various classes, each adapted to its special purpose.
Another pioneer plant was that equipped and started in January, 1881, for Hinds & Ketcham, a New York firm of lithographers and color printers, who had previously been able to work only by day, owing to difficulties in color-printing by artificial light. A year later they said: "It is the best substitute for daylight we have ever known, and almost as cheap." Mr.
A century ago the world knew nothing of the art of lithography; color-printing was confined to comparatively crude products from wooden blocks, most of which were hardly equal to the Japanese fan pictures now familiar to all of us. The year 1799 gave us a new invention which was destined to revolutionize reproductive art and add immensely to the means for education, culture and enjoyment.
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