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TED-Ed
TED-ED: The evolution of the book - Julie Dreyfuss
What makes a book a book? Is it just anything that stores and communicates information? Or does it have to do with paper, binding, font, ink, its weight in your hands, the smell of the pages? To answer these questions, Julie Dreyfuss...
PBS
When did the News Start?
We all have news cycle fatigue. If it’s not struggling to find reliable sources online, then it’s figuring out how to sift through the myriad of competing (and sometimes conflicting) headlines that roll across our TV screens, cell phones...
Odd Quartet
How Music Was Made Before Computers- Music Engraving
Before music notation software allowed us to create high resolution sheet music, the only way to get a good print of sheet music was with music engraving.
Curated OER
Johann Gutenberg
After the countdown, The series "The 100 Most Influential People of the Millennium" ends with the number one most influential person in the last 1000 years. Johann Gutenberg is selected because of his invention of the printing press.
Other
Folger Shakespeare Library: Manifold Greatness: King James Bible: Printing
Video explains what it was like to work in a printing house during the early seventeenth century when the earliest editions of the King James Bible were being produced. [4:25]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Influence of Technology: Lesson 3
In this lesson you will learn to be able to recognize the impact of technology on the history of type. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Influence of Technology."