Richard March Hoe
Richard March Hoe
Personal information
Name	Richard March Hoe
Nationality	American
Birth date	September 12, 1812(1812-09-12)
Birth place	New York City
Date of death	June 7, 1886 (aged 73)
Place of death	Florence, Italy
Work
Significant projects	printing press

Richard Man Hoe (September 12, 1812 - June 7, 1886), was an American inventor who designed an improved printing press. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Year 1812 ( MDCCCXII) a leap year started on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year The City of New York Events 1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Florence ( Italian: Firenze Florentia and Fiorenza) is the Capital City of the Italian region of Tuscany A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a medium (such as paper or cloth thereby transferring an image Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Year 1812 ( MDCCCXII) a leap year started on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Events 1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method form device or other useful means A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a medium (such as paper or cloth thereby transferring an image

Hoe was born in New York City. The City of New York His wife, Mary, and he lived on a vast 53 acre estate, called Brightside, in the Morrisania / Hunt's Point section of the Bronx. Morrisania ( is a low income residential neighborhood geographically located in the southwestern Bronx, New York City. He was the son of Robert Hoe (1784-1833), an English-born American mechanic, who with his brothers-in-law, Peter and Matthew Smith, established in New York City a manufactory of printing presses, and used steam to run his machinery. Robert Hoe (1784 - 1833 was born in Leicestershire, England. He was indentured to a Joiner, in 1802 emigrated to the United States His father owned a steam-powered manufactory of printing presses, which Richard joined at fifteen. A steam engine is a Heat engine that performs Mechanical work using Steam as its Working fluid. A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is an industrial Building where workers manufacture goods On his father's death, he became head of the Robert Hoe & Company corporation. A corporation is a separate legal entity usually used to conduct business

In 1843, Richard invented the rotary printing press, a design much faster than the old flat-bed printing press. A rotary printing press is a Printing press in which the images to be printed are curved around a cylinder The design was patented in 1846 (US patent 5199), and first commercially installed in 1847. A patent is a set of Exclusive rights granted by a State to an inventor or his assignee for a fixed period of time in exchange for a disclosure of an In its early days, it was also called the "Hoe web perfecting press," the "Hoe lightning press," and "Hoe's Cylindrical-Bed Press. Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of Electricity, which typically occurs during Thunderstorms and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or "

Hoe's 6-cylinder press, from Orr's History of the Processes of Manufacture 1864 1864

Richard M. Hoe was a Freemason. He had considerable inventive genius and set himself to secure greater speed for printing presses. He discarded the old flat-bed model and placed the type on a revolving cylinder, a model later developed into the well-known Hoe rotary or lightning press, patented in 1846, and further improved under the name of the Hoe web perfecting press. In 1870 he developed a rotary press that printed both sides of a page in a single operation.

He died in Florence, Italy. Florence ( Italian: Firenze Florentia and Fiorenza) is the Capital City of the Italian region of Tuscany

His nephew, Robert Hoe (1839-1909), wrote a notable Short History of the Printing Press in 1902 and made further improvements in printing. Robert Hoe III (1839–1909 was an American businessman and producer of Printing press equipment

References

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