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Feb 5, 1446
gutenburg
By 1452, with the aid of borrowed money, Gutenberg began his famous Bible project. Two hundred copies of the two-volume Gutenberg Bible were printed, a small number of which were printed on vellum. The expensive and beautiful Bibles were completed and sold at the 1455 Frankfurt Book Fair, and cost the equivalent of three years' pay for the average clerk. Roughly fifty of all Gutenberg Bibles survive today. In spite of Gutenberg's efforts to keep his technique a secret, the printing press spread -
Feb 5, 1446
William Caxton produces a book in England with the first printed adveritsement
William Caxton, (born c. 1422, Kent, England—died 1491, London), the first English printer, who, as a translator and publisher, exerted an important influence on English literature. In 1438 he was apprenticed to Robert Large, a rich mercer, who in the following year became lord mayor of London. Large died in 1441, and Caxton moved to Brugge, the centre of the European wool trade; during the next 30 years he became an increasingly prosperous and influential member of the English trading communi -
ben harris first newspaper
His career in London a publisher of Whig books, pamphlets, and a newspaper is known from 1673. Many of his publications were anti-Catholic. He published the pamphlet Appeal from the Country to the City in 1679 by Charles Blount, opposing the succession of James, Duke of York, and was consequently convicted of sedition and ordered to pay a fine he could not afford.[1] Released from prison, Harris resumed his anti-Catholic campaigning. From 1679 to 1681, Harris published a paper that displayed an -
sedition act
A series of laws known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President Adams. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote. -
First photograph taken
Joseph Niecephore Niepce. Photos are used every where for advertising and many different things. -
Typewriter
W.A. Burt. The type writer hlps make a letter faster then writing. -
1800 The Battery
Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery. The Battery is used to power many communication devices today. -
african american newspaper
African-American newspapers are newspapers in the United States that cater to primarily African-American audiences. Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm started the first African-American periodical called Freedom's Journal in 1827. During the antebellum South, other African-American newspapers sprang forth, such as The North Star founded by Frederick Douglass. As African Americans moved to urban centers around the country, virtually every large city with a significant African-American populat -
Braille
Luis Braille. Braille lettering is used to communicte to the blind. It is still in use today. -
james buchanan inauguration
Montgomery Meigs was the supervisory engineer of the Capitol in 1857. His journals are bound in three thick green leather volumes, with his shorthand script written in black ink on beige paper. In the first two volumes of his diaries, the pages are interleaved with beautiful fold-out photographs of statuary, and photographs or drawings of the Capitol under construction. The third volume has numerous stereoscopic photographs of Meigs's family and associates. -
abraham assaination
Learning that Lincoln was to attend Laura Keene’s acclaimed performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, Booth—himself a well-known actor at the time—masterminded the simultaneous assassination of Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward. By murdering the president and two of his possible successors, Booth and his co-conspirators hoped to throw the U.S. government into disarray. Lincoln occupied a private box abo
