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Richard March Hoe (1812-1886), American inventor and manufacturer, invented a high-speed printing press that helped revolutionize the newspaper industry in the United States.

Richard Hoe was born in New York City.

After a common school education he went to work for his father, who manufactured printing presses. His father had begun experimenting with cylinder presses, and the younger Hoe carried on this work after his father retired in 1830.

When Hoe finally perfected the single-cylinder press, it was capable of printing 2, 000 pages (on one side) per hour.

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A cylinder press had been used to print the London Times as early as 1814, but Americans had been slow to adopt this method.

Hoe continued to improve his presses and was among the first to introduce a double-cylinder press, one cylinder of which carried the type and the other the paper to be printed.

In 1847 he set up a press with five cylinders in Philadelphia. One cylinder carried the type, and the f