Hoe (Robert) & Co

Title: Hoe (Robert) & Co
Description: Founded in 1822. Manufacturer of printing presses. E H Johnson wants to use them to manufacture tinfoil phonographs (1878). TAEB 4: 152n. TAE writes to them re invention of automatic printing press, 11/8/80. D8027H. ## Founded by Robert Hoe (d.1833), an Englishman who established himself as a manufacturer of printing machinery as early as 1820, and was among the first to make iron printing presses in America; among his first was a patented hand press; he also made the first successful singe and double cylindar presses, printing from type on flat beds. Business was continued by his sons, Richard M. and Robert Hoe (1815-1884), who brought out the \"Lightning\"" or type revolving printing machine (US patent, Richard M. Hoe). A third generation took the helm in 1884, headed by Robert Hoe (1839- See Hall, Henry. I:316, 317-18 America \'s Successful Men of Affairs: : An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography, 2 vols. New York: New York Tribune, 1895-96."