Learn how to manage and integrate the technology of 3D printers in the classroom, library, and lab. With this book, the authors give practical, lessons-learned advice about the nuts and bolts of what happens when you mix 3D printers, teachers, students, and the general public in environments ranging from K-12 and university classrooms to libraries, museums, and after-school community programs. Take your existing programs to the next level with Mastering...

This book tells the story of 3D printers, humble manufacturing machines that are bursting out of the factory and into schools, kitchens, hospitals, even onto the fashion catwalk. The book describes the emerging world of printable products, where people design and 3D print their own creations as easily as they edit an online document. A 3D printer transforms digital information into a physical object by carrying out instructions from an electronic...

Biography of Johannes Gutenberg from his boyhood to his development of movable type and the printing press in the early 15th century in Germany.

A biography of the young Philadelphia printer who became a famous author, scientist, and inventor.

A biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.