The Roman Empire still existed when Johannes Gutenberg's work
on the first printing press was completed in 1440. The Roman
Empire was not dissolved until 1453. That was the year when the
Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople, the capital of the
Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire, just two years before the
mass production of the Gutenberg Bible began.
Queen Elizabeth has
seen 13 different American presidents. She was crowned Queen in
1952, during the presidency of Harry Truman, the 33rd president.
In addition, she has been alive for 16 presidents, since she was
born in 1926, during the presidency of Calvin Coolidge.
The same year as
Nintendo was founded; construction of the Eiffel Tower was
finished in1889. The year Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo
(originally as a playing card company) in Kyoto, Japan was1889.
People were still
traveling the Oregon Trail and covered wagons were heading out
west in the mid-nineteenth century, with the first major wagon
train hitting the trail in 1843. That same year, a Scottish
inventor named Alexander Bain received a patent for a machine he
developed called an “Electric Printing Telegraph.” The machine
was the direct predecessor of the fax machines that were staples
of offices everywhere in the late twentieth century - and
still are in the medical industry.