Printing Museum

 I enjoy going to these international museums sometimes. I like the history around it along with the new items well be learning. I think without the printing press or print today we wouldn't be able to do a lot and so going to a museum about the printing press is really cool. Today I learned that one of our founding fathers Ben Franklin was a printer and wanted to be known as such, which is news to me because I really enjoy history. I did not know that Ben Franklin was a student under his brother in learning how to learn the printing press, only to leave for Boston and own a lot of printing shows around the city. Tho if I think about it, it makes sense because it's the newspapers that helped make the revolutionary war happen. I can vaguely remember that the Chinese are the ones who created the printing press but then again, they made a lot of items if you look at something and try to find its origins. The Chinese made the printing press which helped educate and created their cavillations which is really cool. The Chinese also invented the paper now one to think before the printing press we would hire people known as scribes to writing down a books worth of words to help create a book is crazy and what makes it worse is that it would take roughly five years to create a single book were as the Chinese made the printing press and could make it easier and more with in the same span of time.

Here are some links to videos about the Museum:

International Printing Museum Tour: Introduction to Printing - YouTube

International Printing Museum Tour: The Gutenberg Press - YouTube

International Printing Museum Tour: The 19th-century Country Newspaper Shop - YouTube

International Printing Museum Tour: The Linotype & the Typesetting Race - YouTube