Hoe, Richard M.

Richard M. (1812-1886), the inventor of the rotary printing press. He was a native of New York City. His father also was a manufacturer and improver of printing presses. Richard Hoe was the first to conceive the plan of fastening the type from which a newspaper or book is printed to the exterior of a cylindrical iron drum. His predecessors, in improving the printing press, had the idea of wrapping the paper around a drum, but the type was always placed on a flat bed. The Hoe factories in New York City are the largest works of the kind in the world. See Printing Press