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YOUR correspondent, Mr. Henry Cecil, is under a singular misapprehension as to the inventor of cylinder machine calico printing, and the date of its first practical application. Mr. Isaac Taylor was certainly not the originator of cylinder printing; and that art was developed long before he, “in 1855 or 1856 superintended its application at Manchester.” Mr. Taylor, it is true, obtained several patents for inventions connected with cylinder-printing—one, I think, for a form of pentograph, and another for the use of thin sheet copper instead of thick cast cylinders of that metal. These, so far as I know, never succeeded in practice, and it is highly probable they brought their gifted inventor loss instead of gain; but that result was not due to “the inevitable compliment of piracy.” Who the inventor of cylinder printing was it would be hard definitely to deteimine. Nearly a century and a half ago a patent was granted for an invention which embodied the leading principles of the modern machine, and from that time downwards the apparatus gradually developed and perfected in the hands of innumerable practical inventors.
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Printing and Calico Printing. Nature 16, 228 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016228a0
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