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This technique was the main innovation of Gutenberg's printing press.
What is movable type?
This American inventor was famous for his factory on the Mill River.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The first commercial steamboat was introduced in this country.
What is the United States?
The Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan was known for this catchphrase.
What is "the medium is the message?"
This typewriter was manufactured by a company that also made sewing machines and guns.
What is the Remington Typewriter? (or: the Sholes and Glidden Typewriter)
Who is Friedrich Engels?
This nation was the first to "take off" during the industrial revolution.
What is England/Britain?
The application of this scientific topic helped James Watt improve the efficiency of the steam engine.
A favorite of Friedrich Nietzsche, this typewriter was designed in Copenhagen for students with visual disabilities.
What is the Malling Hansen Writing Ball?
This architect and city planner is known for his work on the New York Parkway system
Who is Robert Moses?
British gunboats forced the opium trade on this country.
What is China?
This 19th century author called the 19th century the "mechanical age."
Who is Thomas Carlyle?
This textile machine, which used punch cards, inspired Ada Lovelace's ideas about the future of computing.
What is the Jacquard Loom?
Trained as a scientific instrument maker, this inventor worked at the University of Glasgow.
Who is James Watt?
Built of glass and steel, this building in London's Hyde Park is considered a landmark in the history of architectural modernism.
What is the Crystal Palace?
This futuristic consumer media technology is at the center of one of the two subplots in Ted Chiang's The Truth of Fact and the Truth of Feeling.
What is "Remem?"
This agricultural machine, designed by researchers at the University of California, is used by Langdon Winner to discuss whether artifacts have politics.
What is the mechanical tomato harvester?
This famous American author appeared in typewriter advertisements noting his enthusiasm for the new technology.
Who is Mark Twain?
Calico fabrics from this British Colony pushed the British textile industry to promote trade restrictions.
What is India?
This Protestant principle, introduced by Martin Luther, depended on widespread literacy and printing.
What is "sola scriptura?"