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  2. Printing press - Wikipedia

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    The printing press was an important step towards the democratization of knowledge. [62] [63] Within 50 or 60 years of the invention of the printing press, the entire classical canon had been reprinted and widely promulgated throughout Europe (Eisenstein, 1969; 52). More people had access to knowledge both new and old, more people could discuss ...

  3. House of the First Print Shop in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The printer Juan Pablos oversaw the printing of at least 35 books at this print shop between 1539, the date of the first book printed in the Americas, and his death in 1560. [ 2 ] The house was originally constructed by Gerónimo de Aguilar in 1524 and is located on the outer edge of what was the sacred precinct of the Templo Mayor prior to the ...

  4. History of printing - Wikipedia

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    In 1476 a printing press was set up in England by William Caxton. The Italian Juan Pablos set up an imported press in Mexico City in 1539. In Riga, Nikolaus Mollyn established the first printing press in 1588. [107] The first printing press in Southeast Asia was set up in the Philippines by the Spanish in 1593. The Rev. Jose Glover intended to ...

  5. Global spread of the printing press - Wikipedia

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    The global spread of the printing press began with the invention of the printing press with movable type by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany c. 1439. [1] Western printing technology was adopted in all world regions by the end of the 19th century, displacing the manuscript and block printing .

  6. Bibliography of early American publishers and printers

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    A century of printing: the issues of the press in Pennsylvania, 1685-1784. Vol. I. Philadelphia: Press of Matlack & Harvey. —— (1885). A century of printing: the issues of the press in Pennsylvania, 1685-1784. Vol. II. Philadelphia: Press of Matlack & Harvey. —— (1895). Sketches of printers and printing in colonial New York. New York ...

  7. Movable type - Wikipedia

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    The printing press may be regarded as one of the key factors fostering the Renaissance [10] and, due to its effectiveness, its use spread around the globe. The 19th-century invention of hot metal typesetting and its successors caused movable type to decline in the 20th century.

  8. List of the oldest newspapers - Wikipedia

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    The emergence of the new media branch has to be seen in close connection with the simultaneous spread of the printing press from which the publishing press derives its name. [2] The oldest extant newspaper in the world still issued under its original title is the Gazzetta di Mantova, regularly published in Mantua, Italy, since 1664.

  9. Isaac Adams (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    In 1828 he and [5] invented the Adams printing press, which he improved in 1834, [2] and it was introduced in 1830 as "Adams Power Press". [4] The machine "worked a revolution in the art of printing," and beginning in 1836, became the leading machine used in book printing for much of the nineteenth century, and was distributed worldwide.