The Sun, No. 1

The Sun, No. 1

3 September 1833

The first issue of The Sun newspaper, shown here, was priced at one penny.

Robert Hoe’s machines supported the nascent development of American mass media. In September 1833, inspired by the enormous success of Britain’s Penny Magazine, Benjamin H. Daly launched The Sun, the first successful penny daily newspaper in the United States. Within four months of its launch, The Sun had four thousand subscribers—equivalent to the largest circulations of traditional newspapers in the United States at the time. By late 1834, it had the largest circulation in the United States, with over ten thousand copies printed on Hoe printing machines each day.

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