1857: Timothy Alder patented the typesetting machine.

1857 – Timothy Alder earned a patent for the typesetting machine.

Ibn Kathir’s qur’anic commentary could not have become a popular reference work without the spread of the printing press.

Ten years ago, I bought an old typesetting machine from the 1930s or ‘40s for manual printing,” she explains.

With his printing machine, Coresi printed dozens of books, in hundreds of copies, essential for the constitution of the literary Romanian language.