Hippolyte Auguste Marinoni

At the time of his birth, his father was serving as a brigadier in the National Gendarmerie of Paris, and he was born in the barracks at the Barrière d’Enfer.

[citation needed] The following year, he found employment at the firm of Pierre-Alexandre Gaveaux (1782–1844); a manufacturer of printing equipment.

[2] In 1850, he worked with Jacob Worms, a German immigrant who was experimenting with ways to improve the rotary printing process at the offices of La Presse.

Shortly after, Worms moved to New York and, although he received several patents, his improvements never saw widespread commercial application.

[2] In 1963, the company was acquired by Harris Graphics, an American firm known for its development of high-speed press feeders.