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TecC 42 - Going from a Handful Rapidly to Millions


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We tend to use the words ‘invention’ and ‘innovation’ somewhat interchangeably, and we probably don’t pause to think about the difference between the two. Not only are they different, but their difference has a fundamental bearing on our journey here. Perhaps no other story demonstrates this better than that we are going to explore today. Let’s get to it.

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Further Reading & Reference

* Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.. (1979). The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521299558.

* Man, John. (2002). The Gutenberg Revolution: How Printing Changed the Course of History. Bantam. ISBN 978-0553819663.

* Abel, Richard. (2011). The Gutenberg Revolution: A History of Print Culture. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-1412849524.

* Kapr, Albert. (1996). Johannes Gutenberg: The Man and His Invention. Scolar Press. ISBN 978-1859280515.

* Scholderer, Victor. (1963). Johann Gutenberg: The Inventor of Printing. Trustees of the British Museum.

* Rees, Fran. (2006). Johannes Gutenberg: Inventor of the Printing Press. Compass Point Books. ISBN 978-0756520748.

* Koscielniak, Bruce. (2003). Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0618263516.

* Childress, Diana. (2008). Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press. Twenty-First Century Books. ISBN 978-0822575207.

* Rudolph, Richard C. (1954). A Chinese Printing Manual, 1776. Ward Ritchie Press.

* McGovern, Melvin P. (1966). Specimen Pages of Korean Movable Types. Dawson’s Book Shop.

* Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. (2005). The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. 2nd. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521845434.

* Mortimer, Ian. (2022). Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter. Vintage.

* Wood, Michael. The Story of China. Simon & Schuster.

* The Machine that Made Us - Documentary on the Gutenberg Printing Press with Stephen Fry



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