The invention of Johann Gutenberg. From the history of printing. Technical aspects

For the first time, the book contains the most fully contained numerous information contained in different foreign and Russian publications from the technical printing stories. The monograph covers the period from ancient times to the middle of the 20th century. E.L. Nemirovsky introduces the reader in detail and excitingly to the problem of reproducing information, tells about the forerunners of Johann Gutenberg, the greatest inventor who has found the optimal technical forms of multiple printing reprographic, and the fate of his invention. The author talks about how the typographic machine was being improved for more than three centuries in the tight framework of the printingroly manufactory, about the methods of illustrational press that arose at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, about the development of printing production in the 19th and first half of the 20th century. In the monograph in front of readers, an interesting panorama is unfolding, representing the technical history of printing in persons, detailed descriptions of the printed printing machines and processes, the vicissitudes of the fate of inventors and their inventions. The publication is richly illustrated. More than 800 black and white and color illustrations clearly represent the technical history of printing in its evolution. For specialists, bibliophiles, students of printing educational institutions, a wide range of readers who are interested in history and the current state of printing