By: Derek Bartlett
BLUE BELL, PA--Printing has escalated in the United States, going back to the 1700s with Benjamin Franklin. Originally an apprentice to his brother in a printing office, he opened his own in Philadelphia and submitted a newspaper called The Philadelphia Gazette. Using the power of the press, he used it as a way of bringing news to readers.
The press’ efficiency was added into with continuous rolls of paper, and using iron instead of wood to build them. Printing quickly became central for expression, for both religion and politics.
With the production of works like magazines and pamphlets, political leaders used the printing press to distribute information and maintain social order. The press made it possible for these things along with books, newspapers and other reading materials to be published in great numbers for the public to read, and to promote literacy. Readers who followed these political figures came to rely less on them for guidance, and the printing press nourished individualism.
Also credited to Benjamin Franklin was America’s first circulating library. He founded the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1731, where people could borrow books to read even if they couldn’t afford to buy them.
When multiple copies of books written by individual authors, newspapers and magazines are read by the public, people can then share many of the same knowledge, like opinions of others and information about the world that they may not have known before reading. Newspapers cover a lot of news, and reporters can get their facts straight for them.
Over the years, the printing press has evolved massively. In 1967, computers were being used and started printed digitally. Today, newspapers are printed so fast that there are over a thousand four-hundred and fifty-six of them daily in the United States alone. And, made electronically, they still serve the same purpose of keeping people informed of important events and politics.
Other works like novels and new articles are put online as well as paper. These days there are plenty of readers who read books by getting eBooks for their iPads, serving the same purpose but electronically.
Readers today probably wonder what will happen next, what the next invention will be for printing and reading.
BLUE BELL, PA--Printing has escalated in the United States, going back to the 1700s with Benjamin Franklin. Originally an apprentice to his brother in a printing office, he opened his own in Philadelphia and submitted a newspaper called The Philadelphia Gazette. Using the power of the press, he used it as a way of bringing news to readers.
The press’ efficiency was added into with continuous rolls of paper, and using iron instead of wood to build them. Printing quickly became central for expression, for both religion and politics.
With the production of works like magazines and pamphlets, political leaders used the printing press to distribute information and maintain social order. The press made it possible for these things along with books, newspapers and other reading materials to be published in great numbers for the public to read, and to promote literacy. Readers who followed these political figures came to rely less on them for guidance, and the printing press nourished individualism.
Also credited to Benjamin Franklin was America’s first circulating library. He founded the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1731, where people could borrow books to read even if they couldn’t afford to buy them.
When multiple copies of books written by individual authors, newspapers and magazines are read by the public, people can then share many of the same knowledge, like opinions of others and information about the world that they may not have known before reading. Newspapers cover a lot of news, and reporters can get their facts straight for them.
Over the years, the printing press has evolved massively. In 1967, computers were being used and started printed digitally. Today, newspapers are printed so fast that there are over a thousand four-hundred and fifty-six of them daily in the United States alone. And, made electronically, they still serve the same purpose of keeping people informed of important events and politics.
Other works like novels and new articles are put online as well as paper. These days there are plenty of readers who read books by getting eBooks for their iPads, serving the same purpose but electronically.
Readers today probably wonder what will happen next, what the next invention will be for printing and reading.
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