How did the Paricutin volcano in Mexico get its name? Detailed answer

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How did the Paricutin volcano in Mexico get its name?

On February 20, 1943, in the village of Paricutin, located three hundred kilometers west of the Mexican capital, a volcano appeared on the site of an ordinary corn field.

During the year, the volcano grew to a height of 450 meters and demolished the village from the face of the Earth, leaving its name to itself (the villagers managed to leave it).

Paricutin operated until 1952 and by that time had reached a height of 2807 meters.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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Sometimes Johannes Gutenberg (between 1397 and 1400-1468) is called the first printer. This is not entirely correct, because typography existed before Gutenberg. Books were printed in the so-called blocking method: a whole page of text was squeezed out on paper at once. Books printed in this way did not seriously compete with books made in special workshops (scriptoria), where dozens of qualified scribes worked.

The merit of Gutenberg lies in the fact that in 1445 he invented a printing system from typesetting, composed of movable and replaceable elements - letters. The letter is the first standard part in the history of European technology.

Gutenberg designed a manual casting machine, which ensured the standardization of the letter and the mass production of it. With the help of this machine, he made more than a hundred completely identical interchangeable metal letters. Gutenberg was the first to use a press for printing, developed recipes for printing alloy and printing ink. Thus, Gutenberg is credited with developing the typographic process as a whole, he is the world's first typographer.

Gutenberg's invention, which can be considered the most remarkable invention of the Middle Ages, made possible the rapid and economical reproduction and wide distribution of books and other printed matter.

No invention, before or since Gutenberg, has spread across the world so rapidly. During the lifetime of Gutenberg's contemporaries, about 40 books were printed in Europe.

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