Creator
[Marinoni, Hippolyte.]
Title
Inventions illustrés. L’imprimerie
Publisher
Le petit journal supplément illustrè,
Date
2 June 1901.
Description
Hippolyte Marinoni (front left with arm outstretched, in black coat and top hat) demonstrates the high-speed rotary press that he invented, which printed one million copies of the illustrated color supplement to Le Petit Journal in 1890. As the inventor and builder of the press and the owner of Le Petit Journal, then the largest circulation newspaper in Europe, Marinoni placed himself in historic company. The tableau above the image includes Marinoni’s name on the far right next to famous handpress printers who had preceded him: Elzevier, Estienne, Gutenberg, and Dolet.
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