products. In order to determine which one could be named the superior of the two I have researched and studied both topics extensively .In this essay I will explain why I have come to the conclusion that the printing press is more influential, vital, and educational to society than the television.

How can a five hundred-year-old printer be influential? I can answer this question in one word, literacy. What do literacy and influence have in common? The printed material produced by Johannes Gutenberg sparked a curiosity that actually motivated people to be educated. The availability of printed material was very low. Reproduction of words and

(The first important book made in the west with moveable type, the forty-two lined bible, the most influential book in the world)

images had been so expensive and time consuming to create that only a minute percent of the population could even get their hands on it, let alone understand it.

4. A Short History of the Printed Word by Warren Chappell. 1980

5. The Book Before Printing by David Diringer. 1983

2. The Encyclopedia Americana, International Edition volume 22 .1996

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Approximate Word count = 766
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)