Response to Marjorie Mays's "The History of the Printing Press" blogpost

When reading Marjorie's blog post it helped me look at the history of the printing press with a whole new perspective. I found it very interesting when she compared Gutenberg's metal moveable typing press to stamps and typewriters. I would agree with her that the typewriter does seem to mimic Gutenberg's printing press, but then again typewriting is a form of printing so it does make sense why those two things would be related. This compareasince made it easier to imagine how it worked. Although I think she could have gone into more detail about the printing press its self, I did think she did a great job comparing it to things.

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