The Machine That Made Us

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Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry

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Barbara Rupp

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    The printing press was the world's first mass-production machine. Its invention in the 1450s changed the world as dramatically as splitting the atom or sending men into space, sparking a cultural revolution which shaped the modern age.

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    2008-04-14

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    English

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