This book tells the history of the Industrial Revolution through the lens of publishing.
In Second Printing Revolution, Jeremy Norman traces the transition in book production technology from handicrafts to mass media with some of the earliest examples of publications employing each new process. From the mechanization of papermaking, printing, and illustration to typesetting and bookbinding, the book examines a quantum leap in the dissemination of knowledge comparable to the time of Gutenberg.
Prologue
1. Book and Newspaper Production in the First Century of the Industrial
Revolution
2. Louis-Nicholas Robert and the Development of the Papermaking Machine
3. Friedrich Koenig Invents the Steam-Powered Printing Machine
4. Railroads, Power Looms and Bibles: Innovation versus Tradition
5. Henry Brougham, Charles Knight and the Society for the DiOusion of Useful
Knowledge Use Printing Machines to Reach Large Audiences
6. Image Reproduction Methods Appropriate for Rotary Printing Machines: Wood
Engraving, Steel Engraving, Electrotyping, Lithography
7. Developments in Mechanized Book and Newspaper Production, 18001850
8. Charles Dickens and his Imitators Exploit the New Technologies with Great
Success
9. Development of Mechanized Printing in America: Daniel Treadwell, The
American Bible Society, Isaac Adams, the Harper Brothers
10. The Role of Women in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Book Production:
Emily Faithfull
11. Mechanizing Typesetting and Type Distribution from William Church to
Young and Delcambres Pianotyp to Linotype and Monotype
12. William Pickering and Archibald Leighton Begin the Mechanization of
Bookbinding
13. Mechanization of Book Production in the United States and Europe, 1851
1904:
The Great Exhibition, George Baxter, Manuals & Promotional Books on
Mechanized Printing, The Caxton Celebration & Bible.
14. Mechanization of Newspaper Production in the United States and Europe,
1826-1900: The Hoe Family & Hippolyte Marinoni
15. William Morris, Theodore Low De Vinne, and Robert Hoe III Reflect upon
nineteenth Century Developments in Book Production
Jeremy M. Norman is an antiquarian bookseller specializing in the history of medicine, science, technology, and the history of media. He is the author of Origins of Cyberspace and From Gutenberg to the Internet, as well as the websites historyofinformation.com, historyofmedicine.com, and historyofscience.com.
