The printing press "was actually from China, long before it had even reached Europe," Yoo said. "That took me down the whole journey of discovering other inventions from around the world and ...

Nicholas Yoo of Ramsey created the Historia Project to popularize scientists of diverse backgrounds who have been ignored by history.

The printing press "was actually from China, long before it had even reached Europe," Yoo said. "That took me down the whole journey of discovering other inventions from around the world and ...

A history of printing and publishing. 105 BC: Paper is first created by Ts’ai Lun of China. 794 AD: The first paper mill is built in Baghdad, in what is now Iraq. 932: Chinese printers begin ...

He invented a cast-iron press with compound levers which could withstand the pressures of repeated prints. His first design, with straight sides, still cracked during a run, but his second design ...

It was then that Robert Gair, owner of a Brooklyn paper factory, figured out that he could both score a single sheet of cardboard and then have his printing press cut it at the same time ...

Throughout the region, printing was introduced in Lebanon as early as 1583, Syria in 1706, Egypt in 1798, Algeria in 1830 with the French occupation, and Tunisia in 1860.

In 1502, when he printed Dante’s Divine Comedy, he introduced to the Aldine Press the emblem of a dolphin wrapped around an anchor, inspired by the Latin motto festina lente, or “hasten slowly.” ...

Aldus Manutius is not a household name in the same way that his predecessor by a few decades, the printing-press visionary Johannes Gutenberg, is. Yet by all accounts Manutius (1455-1515) was the ...