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ABSTRACT ON January 1, 1785, _The Daily Universal Register_ began publication as a modest news sheet at the price of 2%d. The journal was intended, in the first place, as much to advertise


the Logographic Press, set up by John Walter near Printing House Court or Yard, Blackfriars, as to function as a newspaper. The title of the paper soon became The Times, which now celebrates


its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary by the publication of a supplement of thirty pages, in which the history and activities of the paper are surveyed. During the past century and a


half, both the technique of printing and the art of news gathering and presentation have been revolutionised, largely through the progress of scientific developments. The Times was printed


at first on hand-presses, which turned out about 250 copies an hour. On November 29, 1814, the steam printing machine developed by Friedrich Koenig (1774-1833), was used, which immediately


increased the output to more than a thousand copies an hour. Since then progress has been rapid and speeds of 40,000 copies an hour are now in use. On the side of news gathering,


progressJias been even more spectacular. In the early days, foreign news came mostly from foreign journals. Nowadays, all the channels for rapid communication opened up by science are


utilised to the utmost. Correspondents are appointed in the principal cities throughout the world or sent specially to places of interest, from which the latest news and reports are


transmitted, by telegraph and radio, in word and picture. By demonstrating the practical utility of modern methods of rapid conveyance of news and equally by recording scientific


developments wherever they occur, The Times has played a noteworthy part in the rapid progress of the past century. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of


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CITE THIS ARTICLE 150th Anniversary of _The Times_. _Nature_ 135, 17–18 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135017d0 Download citation * Issue Date: 05 January 1935 * DOI:


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