SMC228H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: State Agency For National Security, Window Screen, Ecliptica
23 Oct 2018
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Mechanization; changeover from handpress period to machines (speeding up of printing process in 19th century) -> new economics with production. Linotype: entire lines of type = created at once with hot metal and matrices in a machine (20th century) Matrices would drop together in a line; hot metal = thrown at the line to press it. Next week"s class = lillian h. smith library (239 college st. ) Chained books in library so they wouldn"t be taken out/leave the library. Books associated with legal work, bible, works of reference not fiction. Stored in the library with the fore-edge facing the reader. Spine = often the most damaged part of the book -> chain"s usually attached to the back cover instead. Today, they earn their money by repairing family bibles provides protection: protects the book and the individual. I) i. e. harold innis - bullet to the book. Ii) protects intended order: pages in order and not be missing/stolen.
