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Stephanus was busy working alone in his shop as he usually was. But the Roman was nothing like his late teacher Archimedes, everybody knew who Archimedes was. He was a great master of science and the father of Rome’s greatest weapons Stephanus was an amateur who never finished an idea and it seems that he would also fail on this new invention that Archimedes would have easily solved the problem that Stephanus was facing in an instant but he was gone now and all he left behind to his pupil was a book of some of his unfinished ideas Stephanus planned to one day give the book to people capable of completing Archimedes unfinished ideas if he could not do it himself. But he had his own project to do first it was a device that for applying pressure to an inked surface and resting on a medium but something just didn’t fit and it was frustrating Stephanus. Why wont this work? He shouted, shouting at it didn’t make the machine work any better then it did before but Stephanus was to tired and frustrated to care. He leaned in his seat and thought about what Archimedes would do for some reason he began to remember the first time he and Archimedes meet at Syracuse. He was an old man even then but he was still courageous as any man Stephanus ever meet, he was about to kill him but instead he ended up helping him escape Syracuse and even becoming his pupil but that’s another story it was what Archimedes said to him that he remembered. I must work.

After a while Stephanus began to work on his invention again and by a stroke of luck he found his problem and quickly corrected it. After a silent moment Stephanus tested his invention and to his surprise it worked. With great excitement Stephanus went to the room of his own student Arcadius who was sleeping. Stephanus woke him up and said Eureka! I found it! and went off into the night to share the news with many annoyed, sleepy villagers who would rather get back to bed. Little did they know the importance Stephanus Printing Press would play for the future of the Roman Republic.

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I hope you guys enjoyed that it’s a preview of a Timeline I’m trying to write of an early Industrial Revolution starting with the prevented death of Archimedes and an earlier creation of Mass Media. I’m sorry if it’s hard to read is there any comments?
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