Discover who introduced the first printing press in the United States. Learn how early printing began in colonial America. Check its impact on education, religion, and political life. Who invented the ...

Google has replaced their homepage logo with a Doodle honoring Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the movable type printing press, which led to “The Printing Revolution.” Johannes Gensfleisch zur ...

Who was Lise Meitner? Who was Muhammad al-Idrisi? The first was a pioneering female chemist from Austria who was denied her share of a Nobel Prize. The latter, a 12th-century geographer, created one ...

Think your phone just appeared out of nowhere? Hard to imagine life without it, right? Truth is, it’s the result of centuries ...

I love books. When I retire, I aspire to read eight hours a day and may even build a personal library so big I’ll need one of those sliding ladders that runs along shelves 18 feet off the ground. Yes, ...

One of the classic cautionary tales of Down Wing technological rejectionism is the story of the Ottoman Empire and the movable-type printing press. Although Johannes Gutenberg invented the press ...