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Originally Posted by steve B
Damn, I must be getting old and forgetting stuff.
What's interesting is that most online histories of printing and lithography still don't mention Hett at all, but attribute the first rotary press with plates to someone else in (assuming I'm remembering it right) 1910.
I do wonder if Hetts press was built, or how and if it worked. I can see some potential problems, but there were rotary presses in newspaper work well before that. Just not lithographic presses.
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That's surprising because it's mentioned in 100's of newspapers from 1899 until his death in 1915 and although he is credited with other inventions the multi-color press is the one thing mentioned in his obituaries. The $300,000 that he received from American Lithograph in 1900 is equivalent to more than 10.5 million dollars today.
Multi color pressThe_Rushville_Recorder_Fri__Dec_8__1899_.jpg
Multi-color press inventor Salt_Lake_Telegram_Mon__Aug_16__1915_.jpg