Madam Sandi Tells Your Future
summary
A brisk, evidence‑first sweep from scrolls to screens: Gutenberg’s press combines coin punches paper and a hand mold to cast sorts and produces about 160–185 Bibles, shifting cost from materials to typesetting; the Linotype casts lines on the fly and reaches roughly 200 pages per hour, multiplying newspapers from about 8 to 48 pages and making print ubiquitous. The claim is stark — technologies replace roles, create vast new scale, and it works.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 6:48Monk in a Scriptorium
- 9:11The Winepress
- 9:43Roman Coins
- 11:09Paper
- 22:26The Linotype Machine
- 22:52The Composing Room
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