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Today, let s read an old book about a new world. 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.
It s 1832. Our 20th century world is just a premonition in people s minds. The forty years of upheaval that began with the American Revolution finally ended when Napoleon lost at Waterloo. Now America and England are turning themselves into industrial nations. England is far ahead, but we re closing the gap faster than anyone realizes. In 1832, a small yearbook came out in London. It was called,
Arcana of Science and Art. The
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 change by any reckoning. No new technology moves that fast if the world isn t primed to receive it. But the world was. Europe had cried out for movable type since the late 1100 s. That was almost 300 years.
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 in Europe.