Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class 7.: William H. Mitchel

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1662. MITCHEL, WILLIAM H., 16 Newton Street, High Holborn, W.C.

Type composing and distributing machines.

This machine has been largely and successfully used in America, as well as in some of the leading printing houses of England and Scotland. It may be applied to every description of plain book or newspaper work; and effects a large reduction in the cost of composition, in the wear and tear of type, and in the quantity of type required for a given amount of work.


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