Posted on 11/14/2004 4:43:31 PM PST by blam
We still have an Intertype machine we use for letterpress printing. Very similar to a Linotype.
Is that damned kerning going to expose Gutenberg, too?
BTTT
"CAP 1 1 In the bigynnyng God made of nouyt heuene and erthe. 2 Forsothe the erthe was idel and voide, and derknessis weren on the face of depthe; and the Spiryt of the Lord was borun on the watris.
3 And God seide, Liyt be maad, and liyt was maad. 4 And God seiy the liyt, that it was good, and he departide the liyt fro derknessis; and he clepide the liyt, 5 dai, and the derknessis, nyyt. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, o daie.
6 And God seide, The firmament be maad in the myddis of watris, and departe watris fro watris.
7 And God made the firmament, and departide the watris that weren vndur the firmament fro these watris that weren on the firmament; and it was don so.
8 And God clepide the firmament, heuene. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, the secounde dai.
9 Forsothe God seide, The watris, that ben vndur heuene, be gaderid in to o place, and a drie place appere; and it was doon so."
I thought the Chinese invented printing a couple of Centuries earlier, Chinese guy named Al Chin Gore Guy (Means stick of wood, I think)
"Marco Polo Reports, You Decide"
No, I think he's saying that instead of making blocks of raised letters, then clamping them together in a row to make a line of type, he had blocks of *recessed* letters, and individually stamped them into a plate (presumably with a hammer) in order to leave raised letters on the plate. The plate was then used as the printing plate.
The end result would be a manual version of what typesetting machines do automatically, but it would still be manual.
Still, the multi-stage rocket was invented by Schmidlapp, not some unknown Mongolian Chinese Korean.
You were the first one I thought about with this story. LOL
Did you try both examples? The left one is awfully close, though I agree, it alone is not very convincing evidence. (Former editor, but typography was only a hobby, and I wasn't a Linotype operator.)
I hadn't noticed that. But on further digging, I see that they are selling CD roms of old English translations of the Bible, as well as Russian versions.
Next they'll be telling me Al Gore didn't invent the internet either.....
Sheesh.....
;-)
That is still occuring today.
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Hey at least police academy was a good movie, and you can't take that away from this guy.
I read that Koreans were the first to invent pirnting.
middle english....neat!
That's a copy!
Note: this topic is from . Re-ping. I watched this documentary this morning, found it on YT as well. Thanks blam.
Stephen Fry takes a look inside the story of Johann Gutenberg, inventor of the world's first printing press in the 15th century, and an exploration of how and why the machine was invented.The Machine That Made Us (Gutenberg Printing Press Documentary) | Timeline
BBC - Stephen Fry - The Machine That Made Us
His invention was probably another gift of technolgy from the extraterrestials among us.
On a more serious note, the timeline juxtaposition of the printing press and the fall of Constantinople is fascinating, because the coincidence enabled the forward movement of Western civilization and the closing of the East to modernity in technology and all the arts because of the Islamic culture that was imposed.
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