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First there were clay tablets that were baked to make them permanent. Then came scrolls made of parchment or papyrus. The Romans developed the codex, the immediate forerunner of modern books. Around 1450 Gutenberg invented the printing press with movable type and books as we know them were printed. With the Industrial Revolution came the steam driven printing press, and electrical presses came about in the late 19th Century.

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