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Printing press

Found in a corner of the British Library. This is a working press, copied from an 18th century example, but it would (according to the sign on the wall) have been very similar to the one used in 1454 by Europe's first printer: Johannes Gutenberg. It is modelled on the press used by American printer and politician Benjamin Franklin.

 

As the printing press marked the shift from individual written copies of documents to potentially thousands of identical copies, I figured this might fit the 52 in 2015 theme #37 repetition

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Uploaded on October 22, 2015
Taken on October 22, 2015