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Men of Mark Library Edition: Richard M. Hoe, Inventor of the Hoe Press, 1884 american founder The Depp Apparatus Patent forMen of Mark Library Edition: Richard M. Hoe, Inventor of the Hoe Press, 1884 a commemorative engraved portrait of the man whose rotary press hurled American newsprint into the industrial age, rendered with the sober reverence reserved for inventors who reshaped how a republic read itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical