Discover who introduced the first printing press in the United States. Learn how early printing began in colonial America. Check its impact on education, religion, and political life. Who invented the ...

The press, built by Adam Ramage of Philadelphia in about 1815, is among only two or three believed to remain in existence.

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels, almanacs, soap wrappers, and everything in between Looming large on Philadelphia’s ...

Gutenberg’s printing press revolutionized the way the written word was replicated, bringing two-dimensional printing into the world and so vastly increasing accessibility of information. From that ...

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It was one of the defining revolutions in media history: during the night from 28 to 29 November 1814, the London newspaper The Times was, for the first time, printed on a steam-powered press – and ...