Our Heritage: Modern printing presses have a strong link to Niles
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a weekly series on our region’s history coordinated by the Trumbull County Historical Society. (using information from the Smithsonian Institution) In 1890, jewelers and tinkerers Alfred and Charles G. Harris developed a new printing press with an automatic feeder. Their first press was a revolutionary breakthrough, delivering 10 times what a pressman could feed by hand. The Harris Automatic Press Co. was responsible for many printing innovations during the early 1900s, including the first commercially successful offset lithographic press and the ...