CHAPTERIA World without Print Timeline H 16 28 E 38 CHAPTER 2 The Origins of Printing CHAPTER 3 The Man from Mainz T CHAPTER 4 How Gutenberg Did It F CHAPTER 5 The Print Revolution CHAPTER 6 Early American Printing CHAPTER 7 The Age of Reason 46 58 70 CHAPTER8 Technology Moves Forward 82 C CHAPTER 9 The Digital Age 90 ESSENTIAL FACTS 100 GLOSSARY 102 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 104 SOURCE NOTES 106 INDEX 110 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 112
A GU TEN CHAPTER 1 A WORLD WITHOUT PRINT D ne evening in the 1440s so the legend goes Johann Gutenberg and his assistants nervously crowded around one of the printing presses in his shop in Mainz Germany Lines of inked metal type were fastened on the bed of the press A sheet of damp paper was set into position directly above the type Gutenberg told an assistant to turn the screw of the press The top plate of the press came down slowly touched the paper and pressed it against the type The assistant reversed the
AINZ Turning the crank brings down the plate onto the paper in this replica of a Gutenberg press At
