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When the French justice minister used a 19th-century printing press to seal the amendment in France’s Constitution, cheers filled the plaza.
—Angela Charlton and Jade Le Deley, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
The Musical as aspiring musical theater writers Bud Davenport (Gad) and Doug Simon (Rannells), attempting to pitch investors on their grossly inaccurate musical about the life of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press.
—EW.com, 3 Oct. 2023
Along with the printing press came new methods of reaching potential buyers, and the same kind of revolution occurred later with the rise of radio and again with television.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Centuries ago, in the early days of printing presses, almost all typefaces had serifs.
—Victor Mather, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
Copyright law, a set of rules that date back to the printing press, was not designed to cover large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT.
—Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2024
Johannes Gutenberg was actually a con artist, attracted to get-rich-quick schemes before inventing the printing press.
—Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
The Musical' | Credit: Matthew Murphy Bud and Doug eventually land on the story of Johannes Gutenberg and his invention of the printing press in 1440.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2023
Fast forward to 1440 when Johannes Guttenberg invented the printing press, which was followed by a series of panics, including a group of scribes who, in 1474, petitioned the Republic of Genoa (now Italy) to outlaw the invention.
—Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1578, in the meaning defined above
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“Printing press.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/printing%20press. Accessed 2 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
printing press
noun
: a machine that produces printed copies
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