One of the classic cautionary tales of Down Wing technological rejectionism is the story of the Ottoman Empire and the movable-type printing press. Although Johannes Gutenberg invented the press ...

The printing press is “a device that allows for the mass production of uniform printed matter”, explained History.com. Before its invention, all manuscripts had to be written out by hand, and the only ...

If they still teach European history in America’s public schools, chances are that schoolchildren have some notion that the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century depended on the 15th-century ...

When the Olde Yakima Letterpress Museum moved to the Central Washington Agriculture Museum about three years ago, it meant more visibility for the nonprofit institution than it had experienced in its ...

Researchers gathered pages from a Gutenberg Bible and 15th-century Confucian texts to blast them with a high-powered X-ray. Andy Altman Former Director of Video Production Andy Altman covered all ...

Hudson Printing of Salt Lake City, the high-quality commercial printing operation known for superior color reproduction, is now home to a new Landa S10P Nanographic Printing Press. Installation is in ...

The printing press was first invented in 1440 AD by Johannes Gutenberg. It’s not so relevant to our day to day lives today, but it’s a technology that forever changed the path of human history. Now ...

With computerized typesetting now dominating the printing industry, it’s almost impossible to find a printer who still sets type the old-fashioned way–letter by letter and all by hand. Impossible, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Joseph Pulitzer purchased the paper that became The St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1878. Since then, the newspaper offices have been ...

Michelle Freeman-Beasley honors her great-grandfather William Twiggs. Once a relic of the past, the Gordon jobber press owned ...