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Name Instructor Course Date The Machine That Made Us The laborious process of early printing was tiring and time-consuming as it took quite some time to complete a single piece of printed material. As seen in the movie the process involved the arranging of letters to form a word that was to be written ink is applied and the letters are pressed on a plain piece of paper to produce the document. To write another note letters were to be rearranged and the where the director of the movie Stephen Fry explains demonstrates how the Gutenberg printing machine functioned. The machine had two surfaces; the surface where the plain paper was placed and the other surface had the inked letters which could be arranged and disarranged to form the intended word. There was a screw-like shaft that was used to press the formulated surface against the plain paper to produce writing on the paper Work Cited Stephen Fry -The Machine That Made Us. 2008 DVD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8svE2AjQWYE [...]
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Watch this video: http://www.veoh.com/watch/v18714625RMJnrG8x What do you think about the laborious process of early printing? This was the time saving method... how might this labor and cost of resources effected availability and cost of books? What effect would that have had on people's access and literacy levels. What struck you as the most interesting part of the film? Occasionally the link won't work, but the video is Stephen Fry's The Machine That Made Us. A quick Google search and you should be able to find it on YouTube. 500 words Due Friday, April 7 at 11
Subject Area: Communications
Document Type: Personal Statement
