[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses:, Britannica to stop printing books

[Chris Keating]

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> It is socially and historically interesting to compare very old edition of
> Brittanica to a newer edition. For example: an entry on battleships would
> evolve from a discussion of wooden ships powered by sail that enforced
> seapower of an empire to sidewheelers, to iron ships fired by coal to the
> current thinking that battleships are too expensive. In an online
> encyclopedia it is possible to include all these articles side by side into
> a section on the evolution of battleships.


Well, I'm glad to see someone's reading those articles :-)

Chris
(the main author of the English Wikipedia articles on Battleship, Ironclad
warship, Pre-Dreadnought, and Dreadnought....)