Augustus Applegath (1788-1871) was the inventor of the vertical printing-press. 1788 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
He was born in Stepney but carried out most of his work in the Dartford and Crayford areas of Kent. Inventions included methods of silk printing, a new method of printing banknotes and the printing machines on which The Times Newspaper was printed in the mid nineteenth century - the 'Four-Feeder' printed 5000 copies of the paper per hour, and from 1848 the rotary eight-feeder printed 8000 copies per hour. Stepney is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ... , Dartford is the principal town in the borough of Dartford. ... For other uses, see Crayford (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Kent (disambiguation). ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom (and the Kingdom of Great Britain before the United Kingdom existed) since 1788 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. ...
External links
Dartford Archive biography of Applegath
Image and commentary on the Eight-Feeder Printing Press
AugustusApplegath was born in 1788 and died in February 1871.
Augustus was born in the Parish of Stepney in East London, the son of a sea captain employed by the East India Company.
Augustus was the original owner of the silk printing works at Crayford, now owned by David Evans and Co Ltd. He applied his inventive genius to this commercially successful enterprise by perfecting the printing of fabrics using curved copper plates rather than traditional handblocks.
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