...ul silk fabrics, the wide variety of goods included paper fans, porcelain bowls, robes embroidered with silver and golden thread, iron kettles, brass... ...tury. In those five centuries, printers poured the foundations upon which rose the frameworks of many revolutionary eras, including:  The Reforma... ...Linotype invention.  Melvil Dewey‘s dedication to library science (1875–1925).  Andrew Carnegie‘s philanthropy (1901–19). At home Mergenthale... ...t in small towns with fewer than ten thousand people. Between 1896 and 1925, the number of these reading laboratories in the United States explod...