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The first appearances of written texts partial translations exist from 2.000 B.C of the Epic of Gilgamesh from Sumerian into Asian
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The industrial revolution created a demand for business documentation, this devellopment created in turn the need to formalize some of the translation specialities
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One of the first written evidences of this process was the Rosetta Stone, where was found a recorded text on Egyptian, hieroglyph,demotic and Greek that served to deciphering hieroglyphics different of the period (1799 B.C)
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Caliph Al-Mamun built the House of Wisdom to train a translator base, establish terminology, and control translation quality. The right skills flourish best with proper infrastructure and good tools
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After millennia of laborious copying moveable print technology was introduced in the 15th century. It killed off Latin, and created the first multilingual publishing industry. 500 years before, block-printing had been used in Asia to print the Chinese translation of the Buddhist Tripitaka.
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He was responsible for translating the Bible into German, to expand the sacred writings to others countries. Contributions of Martin Luther
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In Europe, Luther’s German translation of the Bible was one of the first great print runs in history. But the explosion of knowledge through printed translation started worrying 17th century Europeans.
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Since 1940 engineers have been trying to automate the translation process and to aid manual translation mechanically machine translation, machine translation is the process where in theory a translation is performed by a computer program in reality machine translation if often aided by manual pre and post editing unedited machine translation is a free service available online, this produces a translation which is often sufficient to understand the general idea .
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The electronic computed arrived in the 1950s, not just a number cruncher but a symbol processor. It promised software solutions to almost every translation automation problem. Translators could finally use machines to do the heavy lifting.