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Employees noticed unusual layers of dust on the shelves and then saw that holes had been burrowed into some of the book spines.

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That is, unless you're the 1863 inventor of a new kind of printing press, William Buckley. By the middle of the 19th century, the printing press had been around for 400 years, and countless people ...

The printing press’ invention, though less exciting and famous, presides over this era. It is deemed the millennium’s main event, and A&E named Johannes Gutenberg, its inventor, as the Person of the ...

In every generation, storytelling has evolved with technology. Let’s imagine the hand-written manuscripts the starting point.

Many "modern" inventions actually have precedents dating back more than 1000 years, to ancient Greek and Roman times.