Augustus Applegath was the inventor of the vertical printing-press.

He was born in Stepney

Stepney

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 but carried out most of his work in the Dartford

Dartford

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 and Crayford

Crayford

Crayford is a town and electoral ward in the London Borough of Bexley that was an important bridging point in Roman times across the River Cray, a tributary of the River Darent, which is itself a tributary of the River Thames.-History:...

 areas of Kent

Kent

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. Inventions included methods of silk printing, a new method of printing banknotes and the printing machines on which The Times

The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...

Newspaper was printed in the mid nineteenth century - the 'Four-Feeder' printed 5000 copies of the paper per hour, and from 1848 the rotary eight-feeder printed 8000 copies per hour.