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History of Science and Technology Q&A (September 22, 2021)

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The Development of the Printing Press

For a while, in many places, the printing was thought to be a very dangerous technology. Governments have tended to be nervous about people disseminating information because it's like, who's in charge here type thing. I think that the em ah, so i don't know exactly how that played into the developmento early printing and its and its spreading but it's a little bit on printing. And turned out we were using a technology there that was really quite a new technology - direct plate printing.

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