printing establishment
1PRINTING, HEBREW — pre modern period The first mention of Jews in connection with printing is found in Avignon c. 1444 (before Gutenberg) when a Jew, Davin de Caderousse, studied the new craft. The first Hebrew books were printed at least within 35 years after the… …
2establishment — /ɪ stæblɪʃmənt/ noun 1. a commercial business ● He runs an important printing establishment. 2. the number of people working in a company ♦ to be on the establishment to be a full time employee ♦ office with an establishment of fifteen an office… …
3printing house — noun An establishment where books, etc are printed • • • Main Entry: ↑print …
4Underground printing establishment — Подпольная [нелегальная] типография …
5Printing press — For the history and technology of movable type, see Movable type. Printing press from 1811, exhibited in Munich, Germany …
6printing office — noun : a business establishment in which printing (as of books, newspapers) is done * * * a shop or factory in which printing is done. [1725 35] * * * printing office noun A printing house (qv above) • • • Main Entry: ↑print …
7printing office — noun Date: 1733 an establishment where printing is done …
8Global spread of the printing press — The global spread of the printing press with movable type began with the invention of the mechanical printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in Germany (circa 1439), and ended with the adoption of modern printing technology in all major regions of… …
9Calico printing — Calico Cal i*co, n.; pl. {Calicoes}. [So called because first imported from Calicut, in the East Indies: cf. F. calicot.] 1. Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes …
10PRAGER, RICHARD — (1883–1945), German astronomer. Prager was born in Hanover. In 1908 he joined the Berlin Academy of Sciences; and in 1909 was appointed head of a department in the National Observatory in Santiago, Chile. From 1913 onward he worked as scientific… …
