It seems there is a special day for everything. Last Tuesday was National Beagle Day. Our dog thought every day was National ...

German scholar Fabian Schrodt (R) experiences and recreates Bi Sheng's movable-type printing at the Bi Sheng Memorial Hall in Yingshan County, central China's ...

In a workshop in Yingshan County, central China, German scholar Fabian Schrodt carefully pressed paper onto inked clay ...

. But the most important part of his invention was actually moveable type. Before Gutenberg, the closest Europe had to printing was the woodblock. The woodblock was a piece of wood with all the ...

The loud sounds of machines and yelling filled the large warehouse in Helena, where the Montana Kaimin is printed every week. About a dozen workers constantly moved around the presses.

Reporter Lawrence Goldsmith followed a tasteful wine trail where he also sampled the region’s rich history. Here's what he ...

Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) force us to bridge the classic divide between the humanities and science, technology, ...

Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family. Nearly four centuries before Johannes Gutenberg produced the first Bible on a printing press, monks and artisans in China were drawing on their ...

NMI, TU Darmstadt and Black Drop develop improved bioink Jörg Schäfer Pressestelle NMI Naturwissenschaftliches und Medizinisches Institut in R ...

We don’t like those damn foreigners. The problem is that great nations throughout the history of Western civilization have ...

Pablo Picasso combined Western portraiture with African masks. Johannes Gutenberg combined woodblock engraving, coin-making and the wine press to create his printing press. They are driven toward ...

It made ideas permanent, portable and endlessly reproducible. Until Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press in the mid-1400s, producing a book in an edition of more than one generally meant ...