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Over the course of human history, a variety of novel inventions have helped facilitate and advance the dissemination of knowledge across the world. Those outlined in the list below are some of the most important.
The Printing Press. While Johannes Gutenberg is often credited with inventing the printing press, his great contribution actually was improving the technology. Printing was developed in China, with
The Diamond Sūtra, printed about 868 CE, believed to be the oldest known printed book. It was created using a technique known as block printing, which utilized panels of hand-carved woodblocks in reverse.
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Blacklisted during the release of The Brave One, Dalton Trumbo (seated) finally received the best story Oscar from Walter Mirisch in 1975, 18 years after the ceremony, in recognition that he was the film s real author a fact some still dispute.
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April 21, 2021, 6:45am PDT
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On May 15, 1975, Dalton Trumbo was vindicated. One of Hollywood s top screenwriters a committed leftist whose career had cratered under the blacklist before his back-channel maneuvering helped defeat it lay in ill health at his West Hollywood home when there was a knock on his door. It was the producer Walter Mirisch, then the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Oscar in hand.