Print... consists of a total of 17 shell segments.
... is 12.2 metres high, 3.5 metres long, and 5.0 metres wide.
... weighs a total of about 35 tons (including stabilising weights).
... consists of a steel skeleton construction, 1,000 square metres of glass fibre laminate, and 250 cubic metres of Neopor® foam.
Facts and figures on the first and biggest stack of books made of Neopor®
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... has a lacquered surface of about 290 square metres.
... was designed by the young designers at the advertising agency of Scholz & Friends.
... consists of the innovative material Neopor®, developed by BASF AG as the insulating material of the future. The invention of Neopor® has made it possible to build the energy-conserving “100 miles to the gallon” house.
... is covered in a new kind of triple-layer metal lacquer developed by BASF Coatings AG in Münster.
... was built by the firm of EDAG, which specialises in the field of engineering and graphic design.
... was designed by the young designers at the advertising agency of Scholz & Friends.
... consists of the innovative material Neopor®, developed by BASF AG as the insulating material of the future. The invention of Neopor® has made it possible to build the energy-conserving “100 miles to the gallon” house.
... is covered in a new kind of triple-layer metal lacquer developed by BASF Coatings AG in Münster.
... was built by the firm of EDAG, which specialises in the field of engineering and graphic design.
Did you know that …
... 23 April is the “World Day of Books and Copyright”? It was created in 1995 by the 28th UNESCO General Conference.
(Source: Press Office at the German UNESCO Commission)
... the Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world? It has been translated into about 2,400 different languages and dialects.
(Source: German Bible Society, “Facts and Figures”, www.dbg.de)
... 48 Gutenberg Bibles have been preserved around the world? They are to be found in libraries in 14 different countries.
(Source: City of Mainz)
(Source: Press Office at the German UNESCO Commission)
... the Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world? It has been translated into about 2,400 different languages and dialects.
(Source: German Bible Society, “Facts and Figures”, www.dbg.de)
... 48 Gutenberg Bibles have been preserved around the world? They are to be found in libraries in 14 different countries.
(Source: City of Mainz)
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The longest Speedmaster CD 74, measuring 21 meters, produces excellent results in Wiesloch. Photo: HEIDELBERGER DRUCKMASCHINEN AG |
... Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG has been the world’s biggest printing machinery manufacturer for almost 100 years? It produces internationally at 14 locations and employs 18,700 people.
(Source: Press office, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG)
... the German-speaking region is one of the world’s biggest “countries” for books? About 700 million copies of books are printed every year, with about 80,000 titles, nearly 60,000 of them new publications. Germany is in third place on international statistics after the English-speaking book market and the People’s Republic of China. (Source: Goethe Institute dossier: Books and the Book Market in Germany)
... the total book output of German book publishers comes to 963 million books worth € 4.318 billion?
(Source: Books and the Book Market in Figures, 2005, published by the German book trade association)
... Germans on average spend three-quarters of an hour of their leisure time reading every day?
(Source: Federal Statistical Office)
... the Frankfurt Book Fair is the world’s biggest book trade fair? Its tradition stretches back about 500 years. Nowadays it draws more than 7,000 exhibitors from more than 100 countries and about 300,000 visitors every year.
(Source: the German book trade association)
(Source: Press office, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG)
... the German-speaking region is one of the world’s biggest “countries” for books? About 700 million copies of books are printed every year, with about 80,000 titles, nearly 60,000 of them new publications. Germany is in third place on international statistics after the English-speaking book market and the People’s Republic of China. (Source: Goethe Institute dossier: Books and the Book Market in Germany)
... the total book output of German book publishers comes to 963 million books worth € 4.318 billion?
(Source: Books and the Book Market in Figures, 2005, published by the German book trade association)
... Germans on average spend three-quarters of an hour of their leisure time reading every day?
(Source: Federal Statistical Office)
... the Frankfurt Book Fair is the world’s biggest book trade fair? Its tradition stretches back about 500 years. Nowadays it draws more than 7,000 exhibitors from more than 100 countries and about 300,000 visitors every year.
(Source: the German book trade association)
Quotations
Gutenberg “really changed the way in which we share knowledge, and helped the world to make discoveries the extent of which would never have been possible without the book.”
Bill Gates (Source: ZDF (German TV), “Our Best”)
“The lead in the printer’s cases has done more to change the world than the lead in bullets.”
18th-century aphorism by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (Source: “Johannes Gutenberg”, by Stephan Füssel, 1999)
“If the telescope was the eye that opened up access to a world of new facts and new methods of transmitting these facts, the printing press was its vocal chords.”
Neil Postman (Source: “The Technopol”, 1992)
“The invention of the art of printing books is the greatest event in history. It is the mother of all revolutions, a fundamental renewal of the human means of expression.”
Victor Hugo (Source: “Notre Dame de Paris”, 1832)
“There are no moral or immoral books. Books are either well or badly written, that’s all.” Oscar Wilde (Source: “The Portrait of Dorian Gray”, 1890)
“The Germans invented gunpowder. But they made up for it by inventing the press.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (Source: “Beyond Good and Evil”, 1886)
“Wherever books are being burned, people are ultimately being burned as well.”
Heinrich Heine (Source: “Almansor”, 1821)
“To letterpress printing and the freedom of the same we owe unimaginable goodness and unimaginable benefits.”
Johann Wolfgang Goethe (Source: “Poetry and Truth”, 1812)
Bill Gates (Source: ZDF (German TV), “Our Best”)
“The lead in the printer’s cases has done more to change the world than the lead in bullets.”
18th-century aphorism by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (Source: “Johannes Gutenberg”, by Stephan Füssel, 1999)
“If the telescope was the eye that opened up access to a world of new facts and new methods of transmitting these facts, the printing press was its vocal chords.”
Neil Postman (Source: “The Technopol”, 1992)
“The invention of the art of printing books is the greatest event in history. It is the mother of all revolutions, a fundamental renewal of the human means of expression.”
Victor Hugo (Source: “Notre Dame de Paris”, 1832)
“There are no moral or immoral books. Books are either well or badly written, that’s all.” Oscar Wilde (Source: “The Portrait of Dorian Gray”, 1890)
“The Germans invented gunpowder. But they made up for it by inventing the press.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (Source: “Beyond Good and Evil”, 1886)
“Wherever books are being burned, people are ultimately being burned as well.”
Heinrich Heine (Source: “Almansor”, 1821)
“To letterpress printing and the freedom of the same we owe unimaginable goodness and unimaginable benefits.”
Johann Wolfgang Goethe (Source: “Poetry and Truth”, 1812)
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