Freeman's Chronicle

A New Invented Printing Press.

We congratulate our fellow citizens on an important improvement that has recently been discovered in the most useful of all human inventions--printing; and for which a patent has been granted. Lord Stanhope was supposed to have done much in a new press that bears his name; but, by complicated additional screws, levers, pivots, &c. which could only be enumerated by an elaborate nomenclature, & which in this improvement are superceded by the simplest of all mechanical operations--a single roller; had also increased the ordinary price of the printing press enormously, so as to place it out of the reach of most printers, without any very obvious equivalent advantage. The honor however seems to have been reserved for our country to perfect this most useful machine, as the following certainly combines all that can be required in a printing press--power, expedition and cheapness. The operation is performed by a simple roller, thereby saving an incredible deal of labor, and gaining nearly a tenfold increase of power. The present plan also embraces the working of two forms at once with equal facility of one in the former mode. We conjecture the price of this new press will be near one-fourth less than that of the common one now in use, and from its simplicity it can scarcely ever be out of order. It has been in constant use, with the most complete success, for some time past, by Wm. Elliot, of the city of New York, the inventor and patentee.--Nat. Int: