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...Gutenberg Earliest European...
Earliest exhibit is St. Thomas Acquinas's "Summa de Articulis Fidei", printed at Mainz about 1460 and attributed to Gutenberg, and along with it are several well-preserved Florentine and Venetian volumes...
...Ernest Boyd. In a milky, translucent square of light in the television receiving apparatus, the audience could make out the figure of Critic Boyd, his features hidden in shadows, as he faced some indistinguishable framed object on the studio wall and began his review by exclaiming nervously, "Ah, Johann Gutenberg!" Intermittently photographs from the book were flashed on the screen: pictures of the unemployed, of banks, of labor-saving machinery. Some were clear, some blurred, a few merely smears and jagged lines. When Critic Boyd announced solemnly that the greatest show on earth properly began with man, television illustrated...
...Yale University Library a student handed in a call slip for Yale's Gutenberg Bible, worth $120,000, one of seven of its kind extant in the world. The request was refused...
Christened on the spot by Whitelaw Reid, the Linotype thus had its first commercial demonstration. Within a year or two it was to prove the most important single development in the printer's art since Gutenberg's invention of movable type more than 400 years before. In making the solid slug of type, Mergenthaler's invention opened the mechanical way for the multi-editioned metropolitan newspaper, the flood of books, pamphlets and magazines on which the 20th Century was floated into being...