What technological innovation allowed for the rise of the Penny Press?

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When examining what technological development enabled the rise of the Penny Press, we must connect production capacity with mass circulation goals.
Option 1: The typewriter. While important for office work and document preparation, the typewriter did not directly enable large-scale, low-cost newspaper production that the Penny Press required.
Option 2: Steam-powered printing presses. This is the key enabler. Steam power dramatically increased printing speed and volume, reducing costs per page and allowing newspapers to be produced quickly for wide audiences, which is precisely what the Penny Press era leveraged.
Option 3: The telegram. The telegram facilitated rapid communication over distances, but it did not decrease the cost or speed of printing—or make mass daily newspapers affordable to the public.
Option 4: Cheaper newspaper production line. While this describes the outcome (cheaper production), it is not a specific historical technology; the underlying technology that made cheaper production possible was the steam-powered press itself, rather than a vague 'cheaper production line' concept.

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