Bible, the first printed book in the world!

Throughout human civilization, man has sought and developed writing media for transmitting information. The first were clay tablets. He attended the sheets of papyrus and scrolls from animal skin. The paper was Chinese invention, and is the parent of German Gutenberg printing.
The book, to support writing has a history of 5,000 years. Over the past five millennia, man has sought and developed various forms for submitting information on writing support, ranging from clay tablets from Mesopotamia to the e-reader and tablet sites performance available today in all civilized countries.
Book history is intertwined with the history of human civilization for millennia. At first it was clay. This was the material from which the media were made first by writing and Mesopotamians invention belongs. The discoveries made by archaeologists near the town Mesopotamian Uruk show that the oldest writing media were used for record-keeping of the city.

To "mark" on the tablets, the ancients traced characters in clay tablets were still as umede.Tăbliţele were shoved in the oven until stiff and inscriptions remained clear. In addition to clay tablets, fabrics have been for hundreds of years, support for writing and sending information. The Chinese used to write on silk with brushes.
Papyrus was an important step in the development of media writing. The invention belongs to the Egyptians, dating from the third millennium BC. "Papyrus was actually an aquatic plant that is found mostly in the Nile Delta.
After almost two thousand years appeared parchment. "The name comes from the city of Pergamon in Asia Minor. II century BC, at the request of King Eumenes II wanted not to depend on imported papyrus from Egypt, there was writing on parchment, processed animal skin, "the history teacher explains Radu Marian.

The most expensive parchments were obtained from animal skin unborn, called "vellum". It is said that what is known today for vellum paper. A material more durable than papyrus, parchment allowed deletion and reuse. Gradually, proved more effective, completely replaced parchment and papyrus books came to be made of this material only in the fourth century BC. H.
The first book published in the series by Father printing was Gutenberg Bible in 1456. The holy book was printed 48 copies as two volumes had 1,200 pages. Work printing machine invented by Gutenberg Bible in lasted more than two years.
In the Internet age, paper next book has given way ebooks. The first e-reader appeared in 2007. It seems that the idea of ​​a device similar existed since anii1900. The first e-reader appeared in Science magazine in 1935 as "book reader of the future". The drawing shows a man in a chair reading a book on a glass screen, the image is magnified by a projector. Remote reader turning the pages of the book. The first generation of e-reader sites was launched officially in America in 2007.