The machine that made us
(2019)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC, 2019
Made available through hoopla
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1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 59 min.)) : sd., col

ISBN/ISSN
MWT12630212, 12630212
LANGUAGE
English
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Directed by Patrick Mcgrady

Stephen Fry, narrator

The printing press was the world's first piece of mass-production technology. Its invention changed the world as dramatically as splitting the atom or sending men into space. It ignited a cultural revolution that shaped the modern age. It changed the way our brains work, replacing a spoken culture with a written one. It is the machine that made us who we are today. Viewers will travel with Stephen Fry on a journey to explore the story of the machine and of the man who created it: Johann Gutenberg. The journey will be shaped by the search for answers to two central questions: how did Gutenberg do it, and why?

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Mode of access: World Wide Web

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