At age 24--among the first to use plastic strapping, instead of wire, to wrap newspaper bundles after they leave the printing press--he bought out his father's partner and relaunched the company as Power Industries.

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North America's first printing press began operation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1639, nineteen years after the Mayflower landing.

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