Photochrome of a glacier, Grindelwald, Switzerland, c. 1890. © Rijksmuseum.
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In the 1860s editor William Bullock invented a printing press that used continuous-roll paper; it made double-sided copies in mass quantities and transformed publishing. Two years later Bullock got his leg stuck in the press’ belt mechanism while installing one at a Philadelphia newspaper, developed gangrene, underwent an amputation, and died during the operation.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
