Script
The A-Z of industrialisationScript is used to record, save and copy written information which can be passed on to and decoded by others. Having a command of writing is the basis for education, business (Businesses), trade and science
Spread of printing
Offizins (printing offices) at around 250 European locationsAfter printing technology had initially been kept secret by Johannes Gutenberg and Johannes Fust, this innovation began to spread in the German language territories from 1460 inwards. After Mainz, where Gutenberg was based, Bamberg, Strasbourg, Cologne and other sites in southern Germany and Italy followed suit.
Stiftung Buchkunst (Book Art Foundation)
Honouring Germany’s most beautiful booksThe German Book Art Foundation was established after the International Book Arts Exhibition in Leipzig in 1927.
Technology
The A-Z of industrialisationTechnology in business (Businesses) and art means handling a material using processes and methods of a scientific nature (Science). Technology forms the basis for organised mass production in factories (Factory).
Television as a leading medium
Trends and formats After technically immature beginnings under the Nazi dictatorship, television established itself as a mass medium in Germany in the 1960s. In 1952 there were already 15 million Americans watching television but only around 300 Germans, their number growing to 1 million in 1957.
Theatre play before the courts
Scandal surrounding Arthur Schnitzler’s ReigenViennese writer Arthur Schnitzler originally had the play Reigen printed in a private edition of 200 copies in 1900. His German publisher S. Fischer having decided that the play was too risky to have on its roster, the first public edition was issued by an Austrian publisher in 1903.
Times
Typeface widely used in newspapers and computersAt the end of the 1920s, the British typographer and historian of printing Stanley Morison was commissioned to revise the graphic design of the world-renowned London daily newspaper The Times. In the role of artistic adviser, Morison worked together with the commercial graphic artist Victor Lardent to create a new typeface named Times New Roman, which from 3 October 1932 – exclusively for one year – came to define the new appearance of the paper.
Tour of the Bibliographisches Institut in Leipzig
Groundbreaking production site of renowned German reference booksIn 1873/1874, modern new premises for the Bibliographisches Institut were built in Leipzig – a publishing house founded almost 50 years prior in Gotha by Joseph Meyer, which had in the intervening years published several reference classics such as Meyers Konversationslexikon. In 1890 the growing Leipzig operation was again expanded to include a print shop and bookbindery.
Trade
The A-Z of industrialisationTrade is exchanging goods for other goods or money. Goods are purchased, transported, stored and sold. The wholesale business sells to other traders, while the retail sector sells to end customers.
Travelling
The A-Z of industrialisationTravelling is when one or more people move from one place to another with a certain destination in mind. It can be done on foot or using methods of transport that operate at regular intervals as part of a public system (Networks) and according to a timetable (Chronometer), or using individually organised forms of transport.
