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timeline of print products
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Timeline of print production
Prehistoric man drew pictures on cave walls
Before 15,000 B.C
Egyptian hieroglyphics were made
4,000 B.C
Greek inscriptions were carved into stone slabs using a hammer and chisel.
750 B.C
The invention of paper. Ts’ai Lun, a Chinese monk told Emperor Chien Ch’u, the invention of paper. It was made from: mulberry and other barks, fish nets, hemp and rags.
105 A.D
The earliest dated European woodblock print
1423 A.D
first use of Roman type in printing.
1469 A.D
Elizabeth Glover set up the first printing plant in the Colonies.
1639 A.D
History’s first daily newspaper was when Elizabeth Mallett issued The Daily Courant in England.
1702 A.D
Konig built the first automatic printing press. Then he installed it in the offices of The London Times.
1812 A.D
The beginning of the first Xerox machine
1961 A.D
beginning of the Internet
1980 A.D