Important Moments in North American Printing

By bresto7

  • First printing press in the English colonies

    Matthew Day establishes the first printing press in the English colonies at Harvard in Cambridge, MA (Howard, 2009)

  • First Paper Mill in the English Colonies

    The first paper mill in the U.S. is established in Philadelphia, PA (Howard, 2009)

  • First Iron Press in the Americas

    George Clymer developed the “Columbian” press, the first Iron Press used in the Americas (Howard, 2009)
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    Invention of the Pantograph, the Linotype, and the Monotype Machines

    Linn Boyd Benton invents the Pantograph, which leads to the development on the Linotype machine (Howard, 2009). Tolbert Lanston builds on these designs with the Monotype machine (Unwin, n.d.).

  • Project Gutenberg

    First effort to create digital copies of books (Howard, 2009).

  • Amazon Kindle

    The Amazon Kindle eReader was developed and sold commercially (Galbraith, 2020).