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RICHARD MARCH HOE (1812-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 559 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD See also:MARCH See also:HOE (1812-1886)  , See also:American inventor, was See also:born in New See also:York See also:City on the 12th of See also:September 1812 . He was the son of See also:Robert See also:Hoe (1784-1833), an See also:English-born American mechanic, who with his See also:brothers-in-See also:law, See also:Peter and See also:Matthew See also:Smith, established in New York City a manufactory of See also:printing presses, and used See also:steam to run his machinery . See also:Richard entered his See also:father's manufactory at the See also:age of fifteen and became See also:head of the See also:firm (Robert Hoe & See also:Company) on his father's See also:death . He had considerable inventive See also:genius and set himself to secure greater See also:speed for printing presses . He discarded the old See also:flat-See also:bed See also:model and placed the type on a revolving See also:cylinder, a model later See also:developed into the well-known Hoe rotary or " See also:lightning " See also:press, patented in 1846, and further improved under the name of the Hoe See also:web perfecting press (see PRINTING) . He died in See also:Florence, See also:Italy, on the 7th of See also:June 1886 . See A See also:Short See also:History of the Printing Press (New York, 1902) by his See also:nephew Robert Hoe (1839-1909), who was responsible for further improvements in printing, and was an indefatigable worker in sup-See also:port of the New York See also:Metropolitan Museum .

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