National Museum of American History
Patent Model of a Bed-and-Platen Printing Press
Folsom, George F. · ca 1856
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a perfecting machine with two printing plates, two platens, and a rotary carrier to convey the paper between them; the invention was granted patent number 14558.
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