Gutenberg combined the wine press and the coin punch to create moveable type and the printing press. |
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Project Gutenberg is an organisation which is committed to making available the electronic version of public domain texts. |
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But is it possible to elegize the Gutenberg Age even as we blast into the Gutenberg Galaxy? |
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In 1452, Gutenberg made the first printing press from an old wine press, moveable type and oil based ink. |
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He wanted to get his Abitur in the Gutenberg Gymnasium so that he could learn a profession that he enjoyed. |
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Test data sets were created from Project Gutenberg texts and a variety of stylometric features were counted. |
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Johannes Gutenberg developed the first printing press in Germany more than 500 years ago. |
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More reading is done in total and books are an important part of the Germans' positive self-image, from Luther to Gutenberg to Herta Müller. |
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The writer and national digital-library advocate David Rothman eulogizes the quirky Michael Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg. |
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The first article, published in March 2000, was on atonality by a scholar at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. |
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His method of typecasting, consisting of casting in sand from wooden molds, was distinctly more primitive than that of Gutenberg. |
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Coster, however, is a far more shadowy figure than Gutenberg, and his printing achievement was not recorded until a century after his death. |
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The idea of the Gutenberg Museum is to bring together the history of letterpress printing and communication techniques of the future. |
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Then Johannes Gutenberg develops the first movable type press, producing up to 3,600 pages per day. |
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Gutenberg of Mainz is generally considered the inventor of printing by movable type. |
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The Gutenberg Press provided enormous opportunity to broaden access to information to the majority of the population who were illiterate. |
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Technical development: from Gutenberg to photo-electronic print composition. |
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Before Gutenberg invented the printing press, all written documents were transcribed by hand and very few people had access to them. |
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In his 1962 book, The Gutenberg Galaxy, Marshall McLuhan observed that the electronic mass media were collapsing time and space barriers. |
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Garfield starts his tour of type and its history with Gutenberg and then meanders forward. |
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The recent tragic events in Erfurt where a student at a Gutenberg school assassinated 16 people has provoked a debate on the right to carry arms, and not only in Germany. |
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The systematic recurrence relation between earthquake magnitude and frequency of occurrence for active fault zones was first presented by B. Gutenberg and C. Richter many years ago. |
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I have stated over the last number of years that the equivalent of the Gutenberg Press has come to those unable to read print because of a disability, particularly those who are blind or vision impaired. |
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If in the view of the jury no qualified prizewinner can be identified at the time of the award, the sum of money available for the prize will be used to purchase bibliophilic printed works for the Gutenberg Museum. |
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The Reformation was a triumph of literacy and the new printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg. |
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While Gutenberg was growing up a new way of making books came into use, which was a great deal better than copying by hand. |
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The invention of the printing press by German printer Johannes Gutenberg allowed the rapid transmission of these new ideas. |
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It has gone out of copyright and is available in full on the web at Project Gutenberg. |
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With his revolutionary invention of letterpress printing and movable type in 1440, Johannes Gutenberg, the most famous son of the city of Mainz, set a milestone on the road to the modern era. |
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Around 1450, Johannes Gutenberg introduced the first movable type printing system in Europe. |
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For over 350 years the printing trade worked with the hand press developed by Gutenberg, which was only made practical with his actual invention, moveable type letters. |
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The most famous historical sites are Vaduz Castle, Gutenberg Castle, the Red House and the ruins of Schellenberg. |
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The figures depicted are of Johannes Gutenberg and William Morris, both eminent in the field of printing. |
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In 2004 the work was published online by the Gutenberg project, and in 2008 Colin Jones published recordings with music. |
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Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot the amplitudes logarithmically. |
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Johannes Gutenberg, credited with the invention of the modern printing press with movable type, was born here and died here. |
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Born Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden, Johannes Gutenberg is widely considered the most influential person within the German Renaissance. |
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As a free thinker, humanist, and inventor, Gutenberg also grew up within the Renaissance, but influenced it greatly as well. |
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The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw presses. |
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Gutenberg adopted the basic design, thereby mechanizing the printing process. |
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Gutenberg greatly improved the process by treating typesetting and printing as two separate work steps. |
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Having previously worked as a professional goldsmith, Gutenberg made skillful use of the knowledge of metals he had learned as a craftsman. |
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Gutenberg served as a professor of geophysics and director of the seismological laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, from 1930 to 1957, when he retired. |
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Project Gutenberg offers some 40,000 e-books that can be downloaded free in any of the popular e-reader formats. Open sesameOpen Library, by contrast, is essentially an editable catalogue. |
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When Johannes Gutenberg invented printing with movable type in Germany in about 1440, inks were made by mixing varnish or boiled linseed oil with lampblack. |
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Johannes Gutenberg is credited as the first European to use movable type printing, around 1439, and as the global inventor of the mechanical printing press. |
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Gutenberg adapted the construction so that the pressing power exerted by the platen on the paper was now applied both evenly and with the required sudden elasticity. |
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Some practitioners continue to print books the way Gutenberg did. |
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The Preface to the Dictionary is available on Project Gutenberg. |
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