The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 106
the establish-ment of the newspaper in this country, the increase hasbeen enormous, until the present, when we now have anaggregate represented by a very substantial fractionalnumber of all in the world. The newspaper is not pre-cisely a part of the history of printing; but it is a resultwhich… … CHRONOLOGY OF EARLY AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS. 103 beyond all question are the most potential of all ther^pults which have flowed from the invention of Guten-berg. It may be of interest to state that the first presswhich came to this country was to Mexico, in about theyear 1500. The next was at Lima,…
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