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This course explores the impact of new technology on the recording and distribution of words and images at three different times
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
249 years, 11 months
Units & Quizzes
9
Unlimited Lifetime access
Access on mobile app
Certificate of Completion
The invention of the printing press ca. 1450; the adaptation of electricity to communication technology in the 19th century (telegraph, telephone, phonograph); and the emergence of digital media today. Assignments include essays and online projects. Students also participate in the design and construction of a hand-set printing press.
This course is also part of the Concourse program at MIT.
Course Currilcum
- Pre-1800 Books, Paper, and Printing Presses Unlimited
- Paper-Making in Eighteenth-Century France and Twenty-First Century Nepal Unlimited
- The Book of Hours, Use of Paris, Circa 1450 Unlimited
- The Nuremberg Chronicles, 1493, Part I Unlimited
- The Nuremberg Chronicles, 1493, Part II Unlimited
- The Bible in Print, 1453–1700 Unlimited
- Reformation Images Unlimited
- Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Celestial and Earthly Bodies Unlimited
- Renaissance Religion and Cartography: Exploring the Role of Print Unlimited
