Wharfedale Stop-Cylinder Press, Bradford Industrial Museum

Here the flat platen gives way to a cylinder. The type sits on a flat bed that slides back and forth underneath; on the printing stroke the paper, wrapped around the big cylinder, rolls across the inked type, and on the return the cylinder stops dead while the bed slides back. Hence "stop-cylinder." The first Wharfedale was built in Otley, Yorkshire, in 1858, and the name came from the valley where it was made. David Payne is usually credited with the key design and William Dawson as his partner. Driven by belts from a line shaft, Wharfedales printed books, posters and local papers across Britain and the empire for generations. This one is in the printing gallery of Bradford Industrial Museum in West Yorkshire.