What was the impact of Gutenburg's invention of the printing press in 1456?
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It has been called a revolution, and it's true. Before that invention, copying a book was too expensive and a book was a treasure itself.\n\nAfter the invention of the printing press schools, libraries, universities, etc. could have a cheap copy of every book they wanted so they appeared everywere. Also publishing a book was a lot easier so many scholars could write and publish their works.\n\nThe impact was too great to express with words. Without a printing press, science and culture wouldn't have advanced and we could still be in middle ages.
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The printing press was invented to create hard-copy manuscripts and books only - replacing monastic monks rewriting books by hand.\n\nComputers and printers can create hardcopies - the internet by itself, cannot. The internet was made to communicate electronically - printing results by chance, and often without revision and editing.
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Try: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
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"An example of Ben Franklin's ingenuity was his use of the printing press to print newspapers."
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http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page\nhttp://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page\n\nand project Gutenburg on the internet \nhttp://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
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A bit dated, but could be useful:\nhttp://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3002498.html
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a HUGE impact. look at the da vinci code. even the author said it was completely fiction and people still took it seriously and started to question their ways of life and religion. or take the red book everyone carried in communist china. that little book ruled their lives (along with mao, but he was the author so it's all connected). there you go. it can change a person's whole point of view almost instantly
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Johann Gutenberg and the printing press.
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/16801/effects_of_the_american_revolution.html\n\ngood luck!
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Catholic monks hand wrote couples of the Bible for centuries before Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1453. Bibles were then mass produced, giving the poor opportunities to learn how to read. It also created several religious and cultural changes when the poor began questioning the Catholic hierarchy and deciding their beliefs for themselves.
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Printing press, television, computer. Writing materials also count. But the most influential was the phoenetic alphabet. Off topic, bu just some extra info.
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Medieval Period\n500 - 1450 AD
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here's a scholarly paper on the subject.  Hope it helps.
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After the Bible, the next step was the Magna Carta signed in 1215 in England.  The king in order to keep his position was forced to sign it
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They used to chain the books to the shelf.  Then printing was invented and books became much less expensive.\n\nLibraries have always changed to keep up with technology.  They will continue to do so.
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Paper, thin sheets of compressed vegetable cellulose fibers. Paper is used for writing and printing, for wrapping and packaging, and for a variety of special purposes ranging from the filtration of precipitates from solutions to the manufacture of certain types of building materials. Paper is a necessity in modern civilization, and the development of machinery for its high-speed production has been largely responsible for the increase in literacy and the raising of educational levels of people throughout the world.\n\n\nThe basic process of making paper has not changed in more than 2,000 years. It involves two stages: the breaking up of raw material in water to form a suspension of individual fibers and the formation of felted sheets by spreading this suspension on a suitable porous surface, through which excess water can drain.\n\nIn making paper by hand, the raw material—straw, leaves, bark, rags, or other fibrous material—is placed in a vat or trough and is pounded with a heavy pestle or hammer to separate the fibers. During the first portion of this operation, the material is washed with running water to remove impurities, but after the fibers have been sufficiently broken up, they are kept in suspension, and the water in the vat is not changed. At this stage the liquid material, called half stuff, is ready for the actual process of papermaking. The chief tool of the papermaker is the mold, a reinforced sheet of metal mesh having either a square mesh pattern, called a wove pattern, or a pattern of more widely spaced longitudinal wires held together with smaller transverse wires, called a laid pattern. The mold pattern imprints itself on the finished sheet of paper, and thus handmade papers that are not given special finishes are identified as wove or laid papers, depending on the style of mold that is used in their making.\n\nThe mold is placed inside a removable wooden frame called a deckle, which forms a low rim around its edge. The papermaker dips the mold and deckle into a vat containing the half stuff; when the mold and deckle are removed from the vat, the surface of the mold is coated with a thin film of fiber-water mixture. The device is then shaken forward and backward and from side to side. This shaking has two effects; it distributes the mixture evenly on the surface of the mold and causes the individual fibers to interlock with those adjacent, giving strength to the sheet. While the device is being shaken, much of the water from the mixture drains out through the mold mesh. The device, with its formed sheet of wet paper, is then laid aside until the paper is sufficiently cohesive to permit the removal of the deckle.\n\n\nAfter the deckle has been taken from the mold, the mold is turned over and the sheet of paper is laid smoothly on a sheet of woven woolen cloth, called a felt. Another felt is laid over the sheet of paper, and the process is repeated; the process of placing the paper between two felts is known as couching. When a number of sheets of paper have been interleaved with felts, the entire pile, called a post, is placed in a hydraulic press and subjected to a pressure of 100 or more tons, expelling most of the water remaining in the paper. The sheets of paper are then separated from the felts, stacked, and pressed. The process of pressing the stack of paper is repeated several times, and each time the stack is built up in a different order with the individual sheets in different positions relative to one another. This procedure is called exchanging, and its repetition improves the surface of the finished paper. The final stage in papermaking is drying. The paper is hung, in groups of four or five sheets, over ropes in a special drying room until its moisture has almost completely evaporated.\n\nPapers that are to be used for writing or printing with ink require additional treatment following drying, because without such treatment the paper would absorb ink and yield fuzzy lines or impressions. The
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Back in the late 1600's, the Dutch invented the two-sheet mold.   The average maximum stretch of an experienced vatman's arms was 44".  Many molds at that time were around 17" front to back because the laid lines and watermarks had to run from left to right.  Sounds big?...well to maximize the efficiency of paper making, a sheet this big was made, and then quartered, forming four 8.5" x 11" pieces. \n\nThis was well before paper machines dominated hand made paper labor.   A couple centuries later when machines dominated the trade (although many hand made paper makers still existed), and the United States decided on a standard paper size, they stuck with the same size so as to keep the hand made paper makers in business.\n\nOddly enough, the United States used two different sizes - the 8" x 10.5" and the 8.5" x 11".   Separate committees came up with separate standards, the 8" x 10.5" for the government and the 8.5" x 11" for the rest of us.  Once these committees found out about each other a couple years later, they agreed to disagree until the early 1980's when Reagan finally proclaimed that the 8.5" x 11" was the official standard sized paper.\n\nUnited States History\n\nNot until World War I or shortly after was a standard paper size agreed to in the United States.   Interestingly enough, within six months of each other, two different paper sizes were set as the standard; one for the government and one for the rest of us. \n\n1.   In 1921, the first director of the Bureau of the Budget established an interagency advisory group with the President's approval called the Permanent Conference on Printing which established the 8" x 10½" as the general U.S. government letterhead standard.   This extended an earlier establishment made by the former President Hoover, the Secretary of Commerce at the time, who established the 8" x 10½" as the standard letterhead size for his department. \n\n2.   Now, during the same year, a Committee on the Simplification of Paper Sizes consisting of printing industry representatives was appointed to work with the Bureau of Standards as part of Hoover's program for the Elimination of Waste in Industry.   This group came up with basic sizes for all types of printing and writing papers.  The size for "letter" was a 17" x 22" sheet while the "legal" size was 17" x 28" sheet.  The later known U.S. letter format was these sizes halved (8 ½" x 11" and 8 ½" by 14").\n\nEven in the selection of the 8 ½" x 11", no special analysis was made to prove this was the optimum size for commercial letterhead.   The Committee that developed the sizes did so using one objective - "to reduce inventory requirements for paper into sizes which would cut from a minimum trimming waste."