Name of Object:

The Gallery of Machines – Section of French Telegraphic Machines, Marinoni's Continuous Paper Model [Paris Exhibition, 1878]

Name in original language:

La galleria delle macchine: – sezione francese Macchine telegrafiche, modello Marinoni a carta continua

Location:

Rome, Italy

Holding Institution:

National Central Library

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Holding Institution (original language):

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale

Date of Object:

1878

Description:

Two of the most important inventions of the 19th century, the rotary and four-colour printing (quadrachrome), are attributed to Augusto Ippolito Marinoni. The new machines changed the printing of journals, achieving up to 18,000 to 20,000 copies per hour. Marinoni had extraordinary success in Paris, where his factory produced 4000 samples of machines which also sold in London, Berlin and Vienna. In Italy at the time, only the journal Il Secolo had a "Marinoni".

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

L'Esposizione di Parigi del 1878 illustrata, Sonzogno Editore, 1878, p. 245

Additional Copyright Information:

Copyright image: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Roma.

Citation of this web page:

Marina Minozzi "The Gallery of Machines – Section of French Telegraphic Machines, Marinoni's Continuous Paper Model [Paris Exhibition, 1878]" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;213;en

Prepared by: Marina Minozzi
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT2 071