An analysis at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory aims to shed light on the origins of the printing press, comparing Germany’s Gutenberg Bible and early Korean Confucion texts.

An analysis at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory aims to shed light on the origins of the printing press, comparing Germany’s Gutenberg Bible and early Korean Confucion texts.

Printing presses in the early times of newspapers “were little more than converted wine or tobacco presses: a big screw that came down on a sheet of paper laid over type lashed to a flat surface ...

Although Johannes Gutenberg invented the press around 1450 and the Ottomans knew about it as early as the 1480s, the Ottomans suppressed the press for some 250 years.

As early as s pring 2024, a newly installed historic printing press at Davis Library will be available for students to experience a hands-on learning opportunity.. The hand-operated device ...