Re: hot type

Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>
> On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:14:49 -0500, Peter T. Daniels
> <grammatim@...> wrote:
>
> [nb]
> >> The press was one of the time-tested and honorable designs -- Round ink
> >> plate[n?] on top, spring-loaded ink rollers moving up and down on a pair
> [...]
>
> > It had a _MOTOR_???
>
> Gosh, maybe not! Possibly a treadle. I was about 12 y.o. then; I'll be 70,
> soon.

No, if it had a motor, then it wasn't a handpress, and thus a lot less
interesting. And as someone noted, unsafe to be found in a high school.

BTW I don't know what photos you referred to in you previous message.
(And no, I won't go look at them; I don't have the time to wait around
for them to load.)
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...