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George P. Gordon
| Name | George P. Gordon |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Fulton Street 96 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Maschinenfabrik |
| Quellenangaben | [Wiley: American iron trade manual (1874) 95] [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 1 (1868) 660] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1810 |
Geburt von George P. Gordon in Salem, New Hampshire |
| 1834/1835 |
Erster Versuch zur Verbesserung der Kartenpresse. |
| 1850 |
Erste Patenanmeldung auf die Kartenpresse. - Er erhält 20 oder 30 Patente für weitere Verbesserungen. |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Druckpressen |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
Vorgabe: Printing presses |
| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | A practical printer, but more widely known as the inventor of new styles of printing presses, now extensively used, was born in Salem, New Hampshire, in 1810. In early life, he manifested the mechanical and inventive ability for which he afterwards became distinguished; and his capacity, in fact, may be said to have been inherited. He was, for several years, engaged as a practical printer in the city of New York, and through a knowledge of the defects in the presses then in use, was led to attempt improvements. In 1834 or '35, he made his first experiment for the improvement of Card Presses, the best, of which were, at that time, imperfect in construction, unsound in principle, and slow in operation. It was not, however, until 1850 that he applied for his first patent since which time, he has obtained from twenty-five to thirty patents for various additional improvements. Since the building of his first press, he has continued an uninterrupted series of experiments, and built more than one hundred varieties of presses of various sizes, including more than seventy-five different styles, forms, and combinations. And he has conscientiously cast aside and abandoned any design which has not been found practically satisfactory, retaining only its available features and tested improvements. This persistent experimenting has been attended with a cost of more than one hundred thousand dollars. Indeed, for years, Mr. Gordon expended every dollar of his income in the prosecution of his purpose. Among the presses built by him, is one called "The Fire Fly," which is driven by the foot or steam power, and is capable of printing ten thousand impressions in an hour, and, with the double feed motion, twenty thousand impressions in an hour. This press performs its own inking, feeding, cutting and counting, and is thoroughly automatic. As a card press, it is unexampled for combining speed and precision of operation. His last and most perfect invention, is called "The Franklin Press," which contains the best features of his presses in their best combinations. For the classes of printing for which his presses are adapted, it is believed they are unequalled. Mr. Gordon is truly a self-made man. He has risen to his present position as an inventor by virtue of his own unaided industry, integrity, and genius. He is sanguine, and yet patient - indefatigable and inexhaustible in resources, and fertile in invention; he delights to grapple with mechanical difficulties - and has always succeeded in surmounting obstacles. If the assertion may be hazarded of any man, that he fills the place for which he was designed, it may be said of this inventor, that he has found the sphere for which his natural gifts and his life training have eminently fitted him. "He is the right man in the right place ;" for he combines the capacities of the practical printer and the thorough mechanic. The printing craft is perhaps more largely indebted to him, in the peculiar department to which he has devoted his powers, than to any other single known inventor. Many thousands of his presses are in use, and the best evidence of their worth is, that they have been submitted to practical tests for years. Mr. Gordon is still engaged with untiring industry in inventing, improving, building, and selling his presses, for which the demand continues unabated; and, at length, after years of test and expenditure, he is reaping the reward he so richly deserves. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 1 (1868) 660] |
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