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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...shop helps standardize The Treasure of Our Tongue, and Henry VIII’s first act as ―pope‖ orders and then funds the first printed English Bible. 17.... ... chimpanzees make. The Wondrous Nature Of Listening It‘s not just the act of speaking that‘s wondrous. As we listen, we easily hallucinate word... ... of capitalism‖ simply because they were capitalists themselves. The very act of printing Bibles intruded capitalistic enterprise into consecrated s... ... consecrated space. When Luther called printing‘s role ―God‘s highest act of Grace,‖ he lent dignity not just to the print business but also to ... ... head of state and the head of a new church. 22 King Henry‘s s first act as ―pope‖ was to order and then fund the first printed English Bible a... ...rseded hand labor everywhere. Revolutionary technologies, such as camera, telegraph, telephone, and typewriter, expedited the gathering and reportin... ...cess to such a treasure chest of valuable books. When Andrew became a telegraph messenger, he paid close attention to the instruments in the off... ...the office, learned to translate Morse code dot-dash clicks, and became a telegraph operator within a year. His subsequent rise was rapid—first in... ...of years. Electronic InfoTech chronologically 1830s and ‘40s  Wired telegraph o Developed separately in England and the United States, it crys...

...ists themselves. -- 16. Shaping the English Language-William Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasure of Our Tongue, and Henry VIII’s first act as ?pope? orders and then funds the first printed English Bible. -- 17. Ottmar Mergenthaler Does It Again-Inventors strived from the early 1800s to mechanize Gutenberg’s process—unsuccessfully until Mergenthaler built his...

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