ENG-3803 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Readwrite, Penny Magazine, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Document Summary
1801 - fourdrinier machine reduced paper prices, 7x as fast as hand making. Glue based binding allows for separated sheets as opposed to collected quartos. First steam powered press in use at the times 1814. Less physical, makes more even pressure, larger platen. By 1900, thousands of sheets in a day. 1803 stereotype method creates a cast metal printing platen using mold taken from a type/woodblock illustration with plaster molds. Benefit: type replaced less often, required less investment in type stock. Could be reused at a later date without another print set up. 1842 extension in copyright to 42 years+7 years post mortem. Rise of railroads (distribution networks moving people out of cities in rural areas. Rise of libraries (public libraries at 1850 in uk), industry libraries. The claiming of the night via gas lamp, electricity = more time to read/write, leisure. Huge suspicion about who reads what, who had access to what.
