Printing And Media Devices

This group gathers mechanical engineering inventions built to reproduce text or images or to capture and play back a visual or photographic record, including the printing press, typewriter, camera, phonograph, film projector and other mechanisms of publishing, photography and early cinema. Their shared work is recording, reproducing or displaying text, images or motion pictures through mechanism, as distinct from the electrical recording and broadcast devices gathered under Electrical Engineering's own Recording And Data Storage and Communication Devices groups.