. But the most important part of his invention was actually moveable type. Before Gutenberg, the closest Europe had to printing was the woodblock. The woodblock was a piece of wood with all the ...

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The loud sounds of machines and yelling filled the large warehouse in Helena, where the Montana Kaimin is printed every week. About a dozen workers constantly moved around the presses.

Pliny the Elder’s 37 volume Naturalis Historia is the largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire. It includes ...

My childhood was standard for any British Gen Z boy. In other words, chronically online. Unaware I was destined for an adulthood filled with feelings of isolation.

For twenty years, literature consumption practices have undergone a total conversion. Readers can now avoid carrying bulky ...

It made ideas permanent, portable and endlessly reproducible. Until Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press in the mid-1400s, producing a book in an edition of more than one generally meant ...

Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family. Nearly four centuries before Johannes Gutenberg produced the first Bible on a printing press, monks and artisans in China were drawing on their ...

While they may be intended to prevent harm, these regulations are like punishing the library for the book a bigot read rather ...

We live in a time of distinction overload, namely a proliferation of distinctions that are employed in all aspects of contemporary political, economic, and social life.