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...e of Our Tongue, and Henry VIII’s first act as ?pope? orders and then funds the first printed English Bible. -- 17. Ottmar Mergenthaler Does It Again-Inventors strived from the early 1800s to mechanize Gutenberg’s process—unsuccessfully until Mergenthaler built his Linotype. But Ottmar’s name fell through history’s cracks. -- 18. ?The Eighth Wonder of the World?-Although a...