Stephen Fry & the Gutenberg Press
Type
Label
Stephen Fry & the Gutenberg Press
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Rated: G
Main title
Stephen Fry & the Gutenberg Press
Medium
videorecording
Oclc number
727599651
Runtime
56
Summary
The printing press was the world's first piece of mass-production technology. Its invention in the 1450s changed the world as dramatically as splitting the atom or sending men into space igniting a cultural revolution which shaped the modern age. To learn the processes and challenges Stephen commissions a modern day craftsman to build a working replica of the original machine and investigates its inventor Johann Gutenberg
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
resource.variantTitle
Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press, [videorecording]Gutenberg Press, [videorecording]
Classification
Contributor
Subject
- Printing presses + Design and construction
- Fry, Stephen, 1957-
- Book industries and trade -- Europe -- History -- 15th century
- Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468
- Middle Ages
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Printing presses + History
- Civilization, Medieval
- Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492
- Printing + History
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor4
- Genre1
- Subject10
- Printing presses + Design and construction
- Fry, Stephen, 1957-
- Book industries and trade -- Europe -- History -- 15th century
- Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468
- Middle Ages
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Printing presses + History
- Civilization, Medieval
- Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492
- Printing + History
- Mapped to1