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Face spray paint, hand-stencil technology
- Jo Marchant, “A Journey to the Oldest Cave Paintings in the World,” Smithsonian Magazine (Jan 2016): smithsonianmag.com/history/journey-oldest-cave-paintings-world-180957685/, accessed 28 Jan., 2024.
- Adhi Agus Oktaviana, “Hand Stencils and Boats in the Painted Rock Art of the Karst Region of Muna Island, Southeast Sulawesi.” In Sue O’Connor, David Bulbeck, and Juliet Meyer , editors, The Archaeology of Sulawesi: Current Research on the Pleistocene to the Historic Period, 48:61–78. ANU Press, 2018. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv8bt3bw.11.
Chinese printing during the Song Dynasty
- John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman, China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press), 95. Kindle Edition.
- Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien, “Chinese Invention Of Paper And Printing,” In Collected Writings on Chinese Culture (Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2011), 145–162. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1pb61wm.15 .
Gutenberg Press
- Sabrina Huyett, “How A Gutenberg Printing Press Works” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLctAw4JZXE, accessed 6 Feb., 2024.
- Uni Mainz, “The Gutenberg Printing Press” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ny9oyrJwo
- Other basic reference about Gutenberg and the printing press can be found in any reasonable Western Civilization textbook.
Jefferson’s polygraph
- Monticello, “Thomas Jefferson’s Polygraph,” at https://www.monticello.org/exhibits-events/livestreams-videos-and-podcasts/jefferson-polygraph-mhpod/, accessed 6 Feb., 2024.
- Thomas Jefferson to Charles Wllson Peale, 5 Oct., 1807. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-6503 . Note that this is a non-permanent, early-access link to this transcription.
Industrial copying machines
- “The Carbon Paper Trade” in the New England Stationer and Printer (March 1898): 28F-28G. https://books.google.com/books?id=1fBYAAAAYAAJ.
- H.S. McCormack, “Labor-Saving Duplicating Machines for the Office” in Scientific American, 107, no. 15 (1912): 302–11. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26011309.
- See Thomas Edison’s electric stencil pen in action at The Henry Ford Museum of Innovation, “Thomas Edison’s Electric Pen Invention,” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idkNLQq297w .