The Illustrated London News Illustrates the Hoe Ten Cylinder Rotary Printing Machine Built or the London "Daily Telegraph"

On March 31, 1860 The Illustrated London News published a dramatic woodcut of the huge Hoe & Co. Ten Cylinder Rotary Printing Machine used to print the Daily Telegraph newspaper. This huge printing printing machine required manual feeding by ten men. It was the largest version of the rotary drum press that Richard March Hoe developed from 1843 and patented in 1847. It must have been truly impressive to watch this enormous steam engine-driven machine in operation.