Source - printinghistory.org/timeline/
1827 John B. Russwurm establishes Freedom's Journal, first African-American newspaper in New York. Means for mass-producing wood type invented by Darius Wells in New York. Mass-produced newspaper, The New York Sun, "the penny press."
1827 - 1838 Audubon's The Birds of America. Hand-colored, life-size prints, often referred to its large size as the double elephant folio.
1828 Darius Wells published the first known catalogue of wood type. Wells introduced the lateral router for cutting endgrain wood type which, when combined with the pantograph in 1834, created the essential wood type making machinery that lasted over 150 years.
1829 Louis Braille develops a tactile writing system used by the blind.
1830 Adams Power Press introduced. Calendered paper produced in England.
1830s Paperback books appear in England and Ireland.
1834 London Union of Compositors formed by the merger of the London Trade Society of Compositors and the London General Trade Society of Compositors. Darius introduced the lateral router for cutting endgrain wood type which, when combined with the pantograph created the essential wood type making machinery that lasted over 150 years. Augustin Zamorano establishes a printing operation at Monterrey, Alta California, the first on the western seaboard of North America.
1835 Padre Martinez brings the first printing press to New Mexico.
1837 Chromolithography (multicolor printing).
1838 Electrotype plates invented by Moritz von Jacobi. First successful type casting machine patented in the U.S. by David Bruce Jr.
1839 Practical photography developed. After acquiring a small handpress from a Hawaiian mission, Henry Spaulding establishes the Lapwai Mission Press in Northwestern Idaho and prints the first book produced west of the Rocky Mountains in the Nez Perce language.
1841 First paperback books are published by Tauchnitz Verlag in Germany A system of syllabic signs for the Cree language compiled by James Evans in Manitoba.
1843 Rotary letterpress developed.
1844 Paper cutter patented by Guillaume Massiquot. Toronto Typographical Union established, the oldest trade union in Canada.
1849 Thomas Howard forms by hand in Salt Lake City the first paper produced in the arid North American West. The paper was used to produce binder's board and in the local newspaper, the Deseret News.
1850 New York Printers' Union founded. Heidelberg printing press manufacturer established in Heidelberg, Germany.
1851 Platen job press developed by George Phineas Gordon. Paper made from wood pulp.
1852 National Typographical Union founded in the United States.
1853 Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823–1893) founded The Provincial Freeman in Windsor, Ontario. The first female Black woman publisher in North America and the first woman publisher in Canada.
1855 The Bank of England issues modern standardized bank notes.
1856 Paper folding machine.
1857 Work begins on The Oxford English Dictionary.
1860 Rotary gravure printing press developed.
1861 Confederates capture Mesilla (New Mexico Territory) and throw the local printing press into the Rio Grande.
1866 American Printer. A Manual of Typography by Thomas MacKellar.
1869 National Typographical Union (U.S.) changes name to International Typographical Union to include Canada. First to admit women as members. Golding & Co., a manufacturer of platen printing presses, founded in Boston.
1870 Collotype, or photogelatin printing. Shniedewend & Lee, a printing equipment manufacturer, founded in Chicago.
1871 Daily Yokohama Mainichi Shimbun first newspaper in Japan established.
1873 Barnhart Brothers & Spindler (called Great Western Type Foundry until 1883). Bought out by American Type Founders in 1911.
1875 Rotary offset lithographic printing press developed. Mimeograph invented by Thomas Edison.
1876 Plantin-Moretus Museum established in Antwerp on the premises of the printing house founded by Christophe Plantin in the sixteenth century.
1879 Benday process for production of color images in newspapers. Gestetner Cyclograph stencil method duplicator. Smyth sewing machine for bookbinding.
1880 Halftone printed from a photograph: "A Scene in Shantytown" in the New York Daily Graphic. Printers' International Specimen Exchange an influential annual subscription publication that ran until 1898. James E. Hamilton of Two Rivers, Wisconsin opened a wood type factory in which scroll-sawed veneer wood type was made. The company later switched to endgrain router-made wood type and operated until around 1990. See Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum.
