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On March 30, 1842, in the small town of Jefferson, Georgia, a young physician named Crawford Long asked his patient James Venable to inhale deeply...
On March 30, 1842, in the small town of Jefferson, Georgia, Dr. Crawford Williamson Long did something no surgeon had ever done. He soaked a...
In a cramped workshop on Mainz's Quintinsstraße, sometime around 1455, Johannes Gutenberg lifted a freshly printed sheet from his wooden press and held it to...
In 1455, in a workshop in Mainz, Germany, Johannes Gutenberg pulled the first finished sheets of a Latin Bible from his wooden press. Each page...
In the winter of 1454, inside a workshop on Mainz's Christophstraße, Johannes Gutenberg pressed inked metal type against a sheet of dampened vellum. Letter by...