See also:RICHARD See also:MARCH See also:- HOE (through Fr. houe from O.H.G. houwd, mod. Ger. Haue; the root is seen in " hew," to cut, cleave; the word must be distinguished from " hoe," promontory, tongue of land, seen in place names, e.g. Morthoe, Luton Hoo, the Hoe at Plymouth, &c. ; this is t
- RICHARD MARCH HOE (1812-1886)
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 (through Fr. houe from O.H.G. houwd, mod. Ger. Haue; the root is seen in " hew," to cut, cleave; the word must be distinguished from " hoe," promontory, tongue of land, seen in place names, e.g. Morthoe, Luton Hoo, the Hoe at Plymouth, &c. ; this is t
- HOE, RICHARD MARCH (1812-1886)
Hoe (1784-1833), an See also:English-born American mechanic, who with his See also:brothers-in-See also:law, See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter and See also:Matthew See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
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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