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 glue and molasses roller, to print the first edition of a newspaper
that was ever run from a cylinder press--the historic edition of _The
London Times_. The problem of the inking apparatus solved, there was no
longer any limit to the exercise of inventive genius in the advancement
of the printing art; and it is, therefore, to the printer's roller, more
than to any one thing, that that art owes its wonderful preeminence
to-day. There is no record in any of the histories of printing, or in
encyclopaedias, of who it was that introduced the composition roller
into use in this country, or any reference to the date when it came into
service. De Vinne, in his "Typogra
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