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Today, Europe invents Johann Gutenberg. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. We date book-printing with Gutenberg's Bible in 1456. One day we wrote books with pens. The next we went to the book store. And that's only a small exaggeration. By 1500 we'd printed almost 15,000,000 new books. That spelled huge c...
Issues of the 1916 American Review of Reviews reveal a strange view of war. The last Indian Wars and the Spanish-American War had not brought horror home to most Americans. The Civil War certainly had, but it was now a recollection of a previous generation. Most people remembered its heroics far more clearly than its agony and blood. By now, WW-I had settled into a trench war of attrition in Europe; but it'd be another year before we joined that fight. At the moment, the magazine shows as much interest in our Mexican border scrap with Pancho Villa as the war...