Career
Often appears mis-spelt as "Augustus Applegarth"
He was born in Stepney but carried out most of his work in the Dartford and Crayford areas of Kent. Inventions included methods of silk printing, a new method of printing banknotes and the printing machines on which The Times Newspaper was printed in the mid nineteenth century - the "Four-Feeder" printed 5000 copies of the paper per hour, and from 1848 the rotary eight-feeder printed 8000 copies per hour.
