He gave much attention to the construction of various machines for comb-cutting, file-making, cylinder printing and other uses he also invented an areometer.
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Abell is noted as an innovative publisher in the newspaper business, making use of new systems and technology : Congress in Washington, D . C ., and using the new rotary / cylinder printing press invented by Richard March Hoe.
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At 5 million copies, this was the longest magazine run in the country using high-quality gravure presses and the beancounters had not foreseen that those four-colour copper cylinders printing on the machines at Odhams Press in Watford would wear out halfway through the run.
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The company produced machines for bullet-making, gun-boring and turning for a number of government arsenals, as well as coin-weighing machines for the Bank of England, two-cylinder printing presses ( designed to print simultaneously on both sides of a sheet of paper ) and a centrifuge for sugar manufacturing.