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2 unusual facts about printing press


Sattur

Other small scale cottage units like Printing press, Fireworks and Match box/Matchstick industries are also present, scattered around the town.

Scipione del Ferro

His father, Floriano, worked in the paper industry, which owed its existence to the invention of the press in the 1450s and which probably allowed Scipione to access various works during early stages of his life.


Adelard of Bath

Campanus of Novara probably had access to Adelard's translation of Elements, and it is Campanus' edition that was first published in Venice in 1482 after the invention of the printing press.

Gasparinus de Bergamo

One of his works, Liber epistolarum ("Book of Letters") or Epistolae Gasparini ("Gasparinus' Letters"), carries the distinction of being the first book in France to have been printed and published with the newly introduced printing press, in 1470 by Johann Heynlin.

Hedeon Balaban

In 1599 he established a Greco-Slavic printing press with his nephew Fedir Balaban in Striatyn and then later in Krylos where he published various church books.

Jacob Marcaria

Jacob Marcaria (died 1562) is best known as operator of the Jewish printing press in Trento in the period from 1558 to 1562.

Judah Monis

Monis continued to use his handwritten grammar manual, but the unavailability of any Hebrew type for printing presses required that each student copy the entire text by hand, an unpopular job which took up to a month.

Norman's Awesome Experience

This activity is witnessed by the Roman commanding officer and makes it into a book that Umberto and Erica are forced to help manufacture on a primitive printing press operated by a group of galley slaves of which they are now a part of having been sold into slavery due to their failure to stop Norman who takes his people away to settle on a coastal area of Gaul safe from the Romans where Norman names the region as Normandy and thus seals his name in history.

Propaganda during the Reformation

Propaganda during the Reformation, helped by the spread of the printing press throughout Europe, and in particular within Germany, caused new ideas, thoughts, and doctrine to be made available to the public in ways that had never been seen before the sixteenth century.

Sky Television plc

Rupert Murdoch described cable and satellite television as being "the most important single advance since Caxton invented the printing press" and saw it as the ideal and definte way into making his definitive breakthrough into the UK's television industry, which he had wanted to do for a long time.

Wanganui Chronicle

As no printing press was available, Stokes approached the technical master at Wanganui Collegiate School, Rev Charles Nicholls, and together they constructed a maire wood and iron makeshift printing press, on which, with the help of the staff and pupils of the school, the first edition of the Chronicle was printed on 18 September 1856.


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1468

February 3: Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of printing press with replaceable letters (b. 1398)

Avel Enukidze

Enukidze had written a book on the history of a famous Bolshevik printing press in the Caucasus which had distributed throughout Russia Vladimir Lenin's revolutionary theses during the Czarist period.

Bill Bird

Bird's interest then dropped, and he sold the printing press, Caslon type and goodwill to Nancy Cunard, supervising the move to her Normandy farmhouse.

Broadway Tower, Worcestershire

Over the years, the tower was home to the printing press of Sir Thomas Phillipps, and served as a country retreat for artists including William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones who rented it together in the 1880s.

Buddhist Cultural Centre

After installing a new printing press the centre started printing new books, both in Sinhala and English; well over 500 books on Buddha Dhamma, Buddhist Literature, history, culture, philosophy, languages such as Pali and Sanskrit by renowned scholars were printed there.

Centro Cultural Mexiquense

More modern items include a printing press operated by José Guadalupe Posada), illustrations and etchings from José Zubieta and José Vicente Villada from the late 19th and early 20th century, Andrés Molina Henríquez and Francisco Murguía of the Mexican Revolution and Agustín Millán and Abundio Gómez from the latter 20th century.

Concha Méndez

In 1931 Lorca introduced her to the poet and publisher from Málaga, Manuel Altolaguirre They were married the following year and together founded the printing press Verónica which edited the publication, Héroe (for which Juan Ramón Jiménez contributed lyrical character portraits of Spanish heroes) and 1616.

Copyright in Historical Perspective

Starting with William Caxton's introduction of the printing press to England, Patterson documents the regulation of publishing in England and the United States.

Daniel Zimmermann

Zimmermann grew up as the son of a printing press technician and an administration clerk in Baumberg.

Don Donahue

In San Francisco in 1968, Donahue traded his hi-fi tape player to poet Charles Plymell to publish the first issue of Robert Crumb's Zap Comix on his printing press.

Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari

In 1523 he established the Libreria della Fenice (Bookshop of the Phoenix), a printing press and bookstore, with his father in the Rialto district of Venice, at the time a major European center of the new art of printing.

Gutenprint

The name Gutenprint recognizes Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the movable type printing press.

Jovan Radonjić

So Governor Radonjić gave up on the idea of printing, the printing press was sold to a merchant in Boka, but many years later Njegoš II brought the same press back to Montenegro.

Paige

Paige Compositor, an invention designed to replace the human typesetter of a printing press with a mechanical arm

Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel

The building housed an important printing press owned by Johann Amerbach and Johann Froben, which attracted in the early 16th century the humanist Erasmus as well as the alchemist and doctor Paracelsus.

Printing in Goa

This was after Mexico had seen its first printing press, but preceded the press in Lima.

Sahaptin peoples

As a result of urgent appeals from the Flathead Indians for missionaries, a Presbyterian mission was established (1837) among the Nez Percés at Lapwai, near the present Lewiston, Idaho, under Reverend H.H. Spaulding, who two years later set up a printing press from which he issued several small publications in the native language.

Samuel Wells Williams

On the June 15, 1833, and still in his twenties, he sailed for China to take charge of the printing press of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at Guangdong, China.

Sirajul Haq Memon

Later he shifted back to Hyderabad, where he worked with Mohammad Usman Diplai at his printing press and later as an assistant in the Sindhi Adabi Board, where he along with Mohammad Ibrahim Joyo and Ghulam Rabbani Agro translated classical works from English to Sindhi.

St. Agnes' Academy Legazpi City

Dr. Micheline Zonia Intia-Manalastas, Ph.D- Director of the University of Santo Tomas Admissions Office; Former Director of the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, the oldest Printing Press in the Philippines and in Asia

Statue of The Freedom Of Press

Both the sculptures were unveiled on October 13, 2013 on the festival of Vijayadashmi at Lokmat Printing Press in Butibori, Nagpur, Maharashtra by Sushilkumar Shinde, Union Minister of Home, Government of India.

Steve Pitchford

Steve Pitchford worked as a highly skilled miller in several Engineering companies in Leeds and was held in high regard at Crabtree Vickers, the Printing Press manufacturers on Water Lane in the City, and, after the closure of that company, at the Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) at Barnbow in East Leeds, where he was renowned for his good nature.