Episode 121
Rise and Fall of Encyclopedias
Patented: History of Inventions · History Hit
May 21, 202335m 8s
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Show Notes
<p>The 15th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1974, cost $32 million to create. The largest investment in publishing history. And yet you can now buy the complete set for pennies.</p><br><p>Who invented encyclopedias? Who wrote for them? And why did Samuel Taylor Coleridge get so upset about them?</p><br><p>Dallas is joined by Simon Garfield, author of <em>All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia</em>.</p>
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