The invention of printing : a collection of facts and opinions descriptive of early prints and playing cards, the block-books of the fifteenth century, the legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the work of John Gutenberg and his associates (1878)
De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 · New York : F. Hart · leaf 402
en-tirely new branch. The history ofgreat inventions shows that manyinventors never received a thoroughtechnical instruction in the arts ortrades which they undertook to re-construct. Jacquard, inventor ofthe automatic loom, was, in his boy-hood, a bookbinder and a type-founder. Arkwright, inventor… … A Medieval Press. [ From Duverger. ] not served time as a machinist nor asa carriage-builder. Fulton, inventorof the steamboat, was not a sailor,machinist nor ship-builder. Morse,inventor of the electric telegraph,was an artist, not a mechanician, noreven a man of science. Koning,inventor of the…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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