Victorian Society Project
Shea Pennington


Some of the periodicals of the Victorian period, includes The Athenaeum, The Blackwood's Edinburgh Magizine, The Examiner, The Graphic, Cornhill Magizine. The way that some of these and many more periodicals were produced by a printing press. The printing press was invented by a German man named Gutenburg. This press made books and magazines for people of the Victorian Era to enjoy. With this printing press, it made the magazines and the books a lot cheaper to buy. They were cheaper to buy, because it was so easier to have a machine make them, instead of by hand.


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(High-Speed Printing Press)

There were many ways to print during the Victorian Era in England. One included, like previously mentioned, Gutenburg's printing press. Another way was Perkins D. cylinder printing press. This press printed postage stamps in May 1840. The inventor was Joseph E. Perkins, an American, living in London. Friedrich Gottlob Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, who invented the world's first high-speed printing press, could not there people of Germany, so took it to England. In 1814 they sold it to The Times of London with this, starting the age of mass media.



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(Gutenburg's Printing Press)



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