February 11th is National Inventors’ Day! For today, Howard letterpress printed an image of a machine invented in the 1820s, and perfected in the 1830s, by Samuel Rust, which is the Washington hand press.The Washington hand press was invented by Samuel Rust during the 1820s. Rust’s patent of 1821 covered the figure-4 toggle lever mechanism for pressing the platen onto the form on the bed of the press. Rust’s second patent of 1829 covered a new cast iron frame with hollow columns enclosing wrough

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