entity · derived
Printing press
Derived node: assembled mechanically from the claims carrying printing-press. A roster, not an adjudicated definition.
Every claim under this term
- 3782193-005 : Imperial China invented the printing press and applied it to centralize power through uniform edicts and the first printed money; the resulting bureaucratic rigidity left the hierarchy unable to respo
- 3782193-006 : Europe, unlike Imperial China, used the printing press to decentralize knowledge rather than to centralize power, and this different application of the same information technology produced a cultural