At the same time he said to his son George, "If you find this to be a likely machine, let me know.

Of course we must go with the age.

If I had not started the steam press when I did, where should I have been now ?" On the whole, the composing machine, though ingenious, was incomplete, and did not come into use at that time, nor indeed for a long time after.

Still, the idea had been born, and, like other inventions, became eventually developed into a useful working machine.

Composing machines are now in use in many printing-offices, and the present Clowes' firm possesses several of them.