Initiate Revolution

December 16, 2007

theGoLdBrick.net has officially begun to get the gears revolving to produce more content. Excuse the extended hiatus, but, hell, that’s the way it goes sometimes.

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4 Responses to “Initiate Revolution”

  1. bhrich902 said:

    October 20th, 2009 at 03:43

    hello, i’d like to use this image but was wondering what the source is for copyright reasons. Thanks.

  2. James Lawrence said:

    February 21st, 2010 at 05:01

    It did my eyes good to see this immage. We have an identical press which we used each week to print our local newspaper. We started the Landrum Leader in 1955 on a shoestring and not much else. Our family was all involved in producing the paper and later job printing for our small community. My father was ill much of the time and his working hours limited so all of us put forth much effort in trying to make a living in the printing trade. The paper was published by other firms for several years, but this was the first press we were able to purchase. It came from a small town in North Carolina where the paper went under. My father and I traveled there and disassembled it, and transported it back to Landrum, where, with all the help of anyone who would, we put it back together and soon had it printing. We printed the paper on it for some years until we could afford better equipment. I remember learning to feed paper into it. I was 13 at the time. If you are interested, It was a Hoe, manufactufed I believe in Michigan. It was run by an electric motor when we got it, with a series of up and down pullies to slow it down. The belts were about 4 inches wide, and required someone to “help it off’” by spinning the flywheel while another person pressed the electric button off and on repetedly. Usually it would gain speed slowly and if the belt did not come off, would eventually achieve approximately 1,000 impressions (revolutions( per hour. I have arthritis in my hands and typing is difficult, but if you are interested, I could tell you much more about this press, and letterpress printing in general in the 1950’s. I am at Bozolulu@msn.com. E-mail me if interested.

  3. Lee said:

    April 4th, 2010 at 12:12

    Hello! Very nice photo of a Hoe, invented by Richard M. Hoe in 1846 and was sometimes called “the lightning press.” This is what my Megg’s History of Graphic Design 4th edition says.

    I was wondering if I could use this picture and a bit of the history you gave to the above blogger in my History of Graphic Design paper?

    This is a great pic and it’s a nice little story you give about the rotary lithographic press!

    I look forward to hearing from you Bozolulu@msn.com!

    Sincerely,
    Lee

  4. The One Nero said:

    April 4th, 2010 at 22:04

    Feel free to use the image and text however you see fit. I didn’t create the image though and do not know the original source. Should check furthur if you will be using it for anything in print, etc. Take care.

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