First Children Encyclopedia

(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1

Writing and printing


A style of letters... ... used in printing.^67


Printing books


At first, books were written out by hand. This


took a long time and was very costly. Printing


presses, like the one


shown here, were first


used about 600 years


ago. Printing books


by machine was


much quicker


and cheaper.


The different parts
of the machine were
worked by hand.

Printing the news


The first, hand-written newspapers


date from Roman times.


They told people about battles


and gladiator contests. Today,


giant rotary presses are used


to print millions of


books, newspapers,


and magazines


every day.


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Every day, newspapers tell us
what is happening in the world.


One rotary press
can print more
than 75,000
newspapers
in one hour.

An old wooden
printing press

s h e e t s i n t o n e w s p a p e r s.

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