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TIL that Joseph Bramah’s patented inventions include the beer pump, hydraulic press, flushing toilet, the first pumping fire truck, and a printing system for numbered banknotes, as well as the Bramah lock. It took 67 years before somebody figured out how to pick the Bramah lock.

by whatilearned June 5, 2022, 9:22 pm

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TIL about the Rotogravure, an 125-year old rotary printing press technique still used for pictures, postcards, and cardboard products.

by whatilearned April 17, 2022, 4:42 pm

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TIL that while impressed by his book “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica”, the UK’s science academy couldn’t publish Isaac Newton’s book due to being nearly bankrupt from spending all of its money printing the “History of Fish”. Thankfully, scientist Edmond Halley’s funded the printing.

by whatilearned April 4, 2022, 1:30 pm

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TIL Printing $2 bills is twice as cost effective for the US Mint as printing $1 notes since they both cost 6.2 cents to manufacture

by whatilearned February 25, 2022, 9:59 pm

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TIL About the “Disney Dollar”, A currency created by the Disney Company for use within their various theme parks and hotels. While you can still redeem them today, the official printing ended in 2016 after use for nearly 30 years. The values were 1-1 with standard US Dollars.

by whatilearned February 11, 2022, 9:56 pm

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Back before the printing press, and news was delivered by individuals traveling for great day, how common were things such as lying or embellishment of news?

by HistoryBuff January 29, 2022, 1:31 pm

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TIL: John Siberch borrowed £20 from Cambridge University and set up the first printing press in the city. He died without repaying his loan which today could stands in the billions – fortunately for any descendants, the original sum was repaid and interest waived by the University in 1971

by whatilearned November 18, 2021, 6:59 pm

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3D printing is a lot like having sex.

by cringeyjokesman October 31, 2021, 9:26 pm

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TIL One of the major themes of The Hunchback of Notre Dame is the dangers of the printing press destroying previous forms of art- namely architecture.

by whatilearned October 29, 2021, 4:55 am

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Did Gutenberg actually invent the printing press, or was there someone else who came up with it before him, but isn’t widely known today?

by HistoryBuff October 25, 2021, 7:14 pm

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Employees of printing / personalised gift card companies, what is the strangest image or card you’ve had to print ?

by QuestionGuy August 18, 2021, 2:02 pm

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Will 3-D Printing Revolutionize Medicine?

by DailyHealthNews May 26, 2021, 6:05 am

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