PRINTING MACHINE • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Printing machine

... history can be traced by the study of these samples just as the history of any machine might be traced from a study of the models in a patent office. One might very easily trace, with most strict accuracy and minute detail, the history of the printing machine from the models which are preserved in the patent offices and elsewhere. So is it with the history of the living machine. To be sure, the history is rather incomplete and at times difficult to read. Many a period in the development has left no ...

— The Story of the Living Machine • H. W. Conn