Apr 14, 2008
59 min
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The Machine That Made Us (2008)

The printing press was the world's first mass-production machine. Its invention in the 1450s changed the world as dramatically as splitting the atom or sending men into space, sparking a cultural revolution which shaped the modern age.

Stephen Fry

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Barbara Rupp

Self

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