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CBC | º«¹úÂãÎè restores 200-year-old printing press, likely oldest of its kind in North America
Published: 10 February 2020
In this century, it doesn't take long to type out a page of text and print it out on a sheet of paper. But two hundred years ago, printing required a lot more effort. There are plenty of printers in the º«¹úÂãÎè McLennan Library, but none is quite like the Columbian printing press, designed and manufactured by Georges Clymer in 1821 — the same year º«¹úÂãÎè was founded. It was found in 1957 in the basement of a bombed out building in England by former º«¹úÂãÎè librarian Richard Pennington.
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