The Invention of Typography

The Invention of Typography

The Invention of Typography - A Brief Sketch of the Invention of Printing and How it Came...
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Author: Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William),1860-1940
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Language: English
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The Invention of Typography

The Invention of Typography

$31,532.72 $6.99

The Invention of Typography

$31,532.72 $6.99
Author: Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William),1860-1940
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Invention of Typography - A Brief Sketch of the Invention of Printing and How it Came About

Many persons and many places have claimed the honor of the invention of typographic printing. That these conflicting claims should be made is the most natural thing in the world. Almost all epoch-making inventions and discoveries are of more or less doubtful origin. The reason for this is that such discoveries grow out of conditions and needs. At the time appointed they appear as inevitably as the blossom on the plant. Very likely they appear in several places at once. Often, also like the blossoms on a plant, only one produces what the gardener calls a set, that is, a fruit which ripens and matures seed for reproduction. The state of human knowledge or the pressure of human need may be such that many students are at work at the same time upon problems which seem to demand solution. In this way the theory of evolution, whose adoption, revolutionizing as it did the entire system of human thinking, was the most important event of the nineteenth century, was independently discovered by Darwin and Wallace, who were working at the same time along independent lines of investigation. The advance in surgery and a keen appreciation of the suffering under operation which made many operations impossible led to the simultaneous discovery of anesthesia by at least two investigators, William T. G. Morton and Dr. Charles T. Jackson. Investigation of the uses of electricity led to the independent invention of the telephone by Bell and Dolbear. It is certain that occasional European sailors found their way to the western hemisphere through several centuries before Columbus made his 8famous voyage. These are only a few of the most notable instances of such disputed or independent discoveries. In some cases the judgment of the world has probably awarded the glory incorrectly. In other cases the glory has gone, perhaps justly, to that one of two or more discoverers who succeeded in making his invention practically or commercially useful. For instance, while Morton was probably not the original discoverer of anesthesia, it was he who made it practically useful in surgical operations, and while there appears to be no question that Dolbear antedated Bell in the discovery of the telephone, Dolbears interest was purely scientific while Bell gave the telephone to commerce. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 67471
Author: Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)
Release Date: Feb 22, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: United Typothetae of America
Publication Date: 1918
Publisher Country: United States

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