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Watching: The Machine That Made Us

7.0•2008-04-14•59 min

Overview

The printing press was the world's first mass-production machine. Its invention in the 1450s changed the world as dramatically as splitting the atom or sending men into space, sparking a cultural revolution which shaped the modern age.