Since the advent of the internet, it's hard to remember how printing transformed the world. In this episode, Sabrina recreates Gutenberg's printing press using time accurate techniques, and explores how it laid the foundation for how information is spread today.

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CREDITS

Executive Producer
Sabrina Cruz
Melissa Fernandes
Taha Khan

Producer
Molly Williams

Researcher
Chloe Binderup

Craft Engineer
Jade Codinera
Writer
Sabrina Cruz

Host
Sabrina Cruz

Director
Melissa Fernandes

B-Cam / DIT
River Shepperd

Sound
Edison Dietrich

Production Assistant
Gabrielle Augustin
Varman Nava

Story Editor
Stephanie Castillo

Editor
Chase Madsen

Animators
Krisztina Varga
Olivér Varga

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Sarah Walker
Brian Huffman

Executive Creative Director, A+E Networks
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Matt Neary

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SOURCES
Buringh, Eltjo & Zanden, Jan. (2009). Charting the “Rise of the West”: Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe, A Long-Term Perspective from the Sixth through Eighteenth Centuries. The Journal of Economic History. 69. 409-445.

Davis, Margaret Leslie. The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story Of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey. Penguin, 2019.

Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979)
Goff, Frederick R. “Johann Gutenberg and the Scheide Library at Princeton.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 37, no. 2, Princeton University Library, 1976, pp. 72–84, https://doi.org/10.2307/26403999.

Gulik, Egbertus van et al. Erasmus And His Books. University Of Toronto Press, 2018.
Helmers, Helmer, Nina Lamal, and Jamie Cumby. " Introduction: The Printing Press as an Agent of Power". Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2021.

Man, John. The Gutenberg Revolution. Random House, 2010.
Moxon, Joseph, and De Vinne, Theodore Low. Moxon's Mechanick exercises; or, The doctrine of handy-works applied to the art of printing, v.2 (1683), New York: The Typothetæ of the City of New York, https://doi.org/10.5479/sil.113648.39...

Alternate access with scans/digitized original: https://archive.org/details/mechanick...
Newman, M. Sophia. "The Buddhist History Of Moveable Type". TRICYCLE, 2016,
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Romney, Rebecca, and J. P Romney. Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories From Book History. 1st ed., Harper's, 2017.
Southward, John. A Dictionary Of Typography And Its Accessory Arts. Powell, 1871.
The Edinburgh Encyclopedia. Joseph And Edward Parker; William Brown, Printer, 1832.
Updike, Daniel Berkeley. Printing Types, Their History, Forms, And Use. Nabu Press, 2010.
Wijnekus, Franciscus J. M, and E. F Wijnekus. ELSEVIER's DICTIONARY OF THE PRINTING AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES : IN 6 LANGUAGES. 2nd ed., ELSEVIER, 1983.

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Welcome to the joke under the fold!

What did Gutenberg say when he ran out of paper? Oh sheet.