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Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press

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Book Description
If a book was published 600 years ago, it would have been copied out by hand by a scribe in a monastery and probably would have taken months to produce. But thanks to Johann Gutenberg in the fifteenth century, modern printing was born and nowadays it can take only a few seconds to print a book. Gutenberg invented the printing press as well as a new type of ink and a new way to cast type.

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Book Information
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Company
BindingHardcover (3 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of Pages40
ISBN-100618263519
ISBN-13978-0618263516
Publication Date09/22/2003
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About Bruce Koscielniak (Author) : Bruce Koscielniak is a published author and an illustrator of children's books. Some of the published credits of Bruce Koscielniak include Looking at Glass Through the Ages, About Time: A First Look a... more
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