...jobs which often sent me into composing rooms filled with those towering, typesetting machines‘ clickety-clacks and the acrid odors from their melti... ... our mouths and emit intelligible sounds that empower us to share so many types of knowledge. When we speak, we can:  Describe past events  ... ...hree or four different materials for construction. These included special types of wood, pieces of horn, and sinew crafted together. Even though it... ...over a hundred times the cost per page of a thousand printed off a single typeset page. Hypothetical example:  Typeset one page: $3.00 o Print ... ...ibraries. Little had changed after more than four centuries. Gutenberg‘s typesetting process still prevailed. Setting type manually remained extrem... ...  Rotating magnetic drums for internal storage of data and programs.  Transistors replace vacuum tubes. 1952  Pre-election polls predicted a c... ...rning vote totals had confirmed it. 1960s  Integrated circuits replace transistors.  Plain-paper copying machine. 1969  Seeds planted for th...

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...jobs which often sent me into composing rooms filled with those towering, typesetting machines‘ clickety-clacks and the acrid odors from their melti... ... our mouths and emit intelligible sounds that empower us to share so many types of knowledge. When we speak, we can:  Describe past events ... ...hree or four different materials for construction. These included special types of wood, pieces of horn, and sinew crafted together. Even though ... ...over a hundred times the cost per page of a thousand printed off a single typeset page. Hypothetical example:  Typeset one page: $3.00 o Prin... ...raries. Little had changed after more than four centuries. Gutenberg‘s typesetting process still prevailed. Setting type manually remained extrem... ...  Rotating magnetic drums for internal storage of data and programs.  Transistors replace vacuum tubes. 1952  Pre-election polls predicted a c... ...rning vote totals had confirmed it. 1960s  Integrated circuits replace transistors.  Plain-paper copying machine. 1969  Seeds planted for th...