The Machine That Made Us

00:00:05 I've always been rather fond of books.

00:02:26 that I can move these letters into any order

00:04:56 To answer the how question

00:07:15 and operated the lever

00:09:35 This was Gutenberg's birthplace and the city where he spent his childhood.

00:12:33 whether or not he looked like David Tennant as Doctor Who

00:15:24 Ja, ja. And it was cold and dark and their eyes were tired.

00:17:54 'Presses like these may have started Gutenberg's creative juices running

00:20:28 That's right. That's the elegant part of it.

00:23:25 which is the ecclesiastical heart of an ecclesiastical city at the heart of an ecclesiastical empire -

00:25:46 It's the only drawing that I know of

00:28:12 which would be held up so that it was some sort of a satellite dish capturing radiation.

00:30:38 'First, we have to make a punch

00:32:52 This is the type mould and it's made of two halves

00:34:48 that just enabled printers all over Europe to start spreading the word.

00:37:18 The one thing I of course can't wait to see is how it actually prints.

00:39:49 for veal chops at the tables of the mighty.

00:42:27 We go in like this, turn it.

00:44:27 I feel connected to Gutenberg somehow just by doing this.

00:46:37 'So I cheated.

00:48:53 The alignment is fantastic. And there is your E, right there.

00:51:25 But what a beginning it was.

00:53:43 You see, the illumination went up the page and somebody needed a model

00:56:28 so he was forced to hand over all his printing equipment instead.