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This printer is purely mechanical, and its speed is very high.
This receiving apparatus, with the exception of the Morse printer, was contained in a sheet-iron box, so as to exclude it from the action of the sparks of the neighbouring transmitter.
At Basel he found work as a printer, and here, probably, it was that he died in the winter of 1542-1543.
He was a master printer and an artist of the first order.
Franklin's superior management of the paper, his new type, " some spirited remarks " on the controversy between the Massachusetts assembly and Governor Burnet, brought his paper into immediate notice, and his success both as a printer and as a journalist was assured and complete.