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From Gutenberg to the Internet Timeline An Annotated Chronology of the History of Information from about 30,000 B.C.E. to the present, by Jeremy M. Norman. |
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1810 |
There are 185 paper mills in the United States. |
1811 |
Workers and craftsmen concerned about the loss of jobs due to automation found the Luddite movement. Among the examples of automation they destroy are Jacquard looms. |
1812 |
After two failed attempts, Friedrich Koenig of Suhl builds a steam operated twin cylinder printing press. This is the first printing press not powered by hand. |
1814 |
The Times newspaper in London purchases a Koenig power press. The output of the new machine is 1,100 sheets an hour, more than four times higher than that of the manually operated press previously used by the newspaper. The machine is secretly installed in Printing House Square and on November 29 the first issue from the steam-driven machine is printed. |
| August 25 | During the War of 1812 British Troops set fire to the U.S. Capitol building, burning, among other things, the Library of Congress, which at this time contains 3,000 volumes. |
| Within a month after the burning of the Library of Congress President Thomas Jefferson offers his personal library as a replacement. Jefferson has spent 50 years accumulating 6, 487 books, "putting by everything which related to America, and indeed whatever was rare and valuable in every science"; his library is considered to be one of the finest in the United States. Jefferson, who is heavily indebted, seeks to use the proceeds of the sale of his books to satisfy his creditors. He anticipates controversy over the nature of his collection, which includes books in foreign languages and volumes of philosophy, science, literature, and other topics not normally viewed as part of a legislative library. He writes: "I do not know that it contains any branch of science which Congress would wish to exclude from their collection; there is, in fact, no subject to which a Member of Congress may not have occasion to refer." | |
1815 January |
Congress appropriates $23,950 for Thomas Jefferson's books, laying a new foundation universal in scope for the U.S. national library (Library of Congress).. |
1816 |
Francis Ronalds builds the first working electric telegraph. |
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Koenig adds a perfector to The Times power press, allowing the press to print almost as many copies on both sides of the sheet on one pass through the press as had been previously printed on one side only. |
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