There are also dozens of historical items, books and printing equipment on display. ... The printing press was invented around 1450 and the design was hardly changed for the next 400 years.

But after the printing press, Palmer says it became nearly impossible to destroy all copies of a dangerous idea. And the more dangerous a book was claimed to be, the more the people wanted to read it.

A member of the Argentine Federal Police collects Nazi-oriented books during a seizure at an irregular printing press in Buenos Aires. Argentine police seized more than 200 Nazi-oriented ...

When Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1440, he couldn’t have foreseen how his humble creation would eventually lead to a global industry churning out millions of books each year.

On April 16, 1775, Isaiah Thomas, a revolutionary patriot and printer of the radical Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, snuck his printing press out of Boston under the cover of darkness. It ...

Today, when people mention Bulaq, it is often with a dismissive shrug to what is perceived as a crowded, lower-income ...