Electa Quinney by Karyn Saemann

Author:Karyn Saemann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Published: 2014-04-17T04:00:00+00:00

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A Cherokee Printer

When John Walker Candy was working as a printer, the job was much tougher than today. There were no computers in the 1800s.

To form a word, a printer picked tiny metal letters out of a wooden box. The letters, called type, were made of lead. Lining them up to create words was called composing type. Once the words were composed, they were coated in ink and pressed onto paper to make a printed page. The whole process was done on a machine called a printing press. There was no electricity. Printing presses were powered by steam engines or operated by hand.

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