Michael S. Hart

Organization founder

1947 – 2011

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Who was Michael S. Hart?

Michael Stern Hart was an American author, best known as the inventor of the electronic book and the founder of Project Gutenberg, the first project to make ebooks freely available via the Internet. Most of the early postings were typed in by Hart himself.

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Born
Mar 8, 1947
Tacoma
Also known as
  • Michael Stern Hart
Ethnicity
  • White people
Education
  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
  • Dartmouth College
Died
Sep 6, 2011
Urbana

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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