wk 12 blog

The crandall printing mueseum was a pretty cool place. I think it's quite odd that it took about 400 years for major improvements to be made to the printing press, especially considering how far other technology advanced in the same period. It also makes it much more amazing that it was developed so early though. I suppose that the reason for this was probably that there was not as much demand for printed materials, as there was for modern weapons, or new forms of transportation, or new farming technology, etc. I did really like the linotype machine though, it was really cool. I also think that it's amazing that they were able to print how much they did, it seemed to take a whole bunch of work, and I imagine that it wasn't all that profitable. Oh and that little model of the gold plates looked really cool. All in all the trip to the Crandall mueseum was worth it, even though I was really tired that day.