# The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

Author: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Genre: Politics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Declaration+of+Independence+of+the+United+States+of+America+Jefferson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The United States Declaration of Independence was the first E-text released by Project Gutenberg, early in 1971. The title was stored in an emailed instruction set which required a tape or diskpack be hand mounted for retrieval. The disk pack was the size of a large cake in a cake carrier, cost $1500, and contained 5 megabytes, of which this file took 1-2%. Two tape backups were kept plus one on paper tape. The 10,000 files we hope to have online by the end of 2001 should take about 1-2% of a comparably priced drive in 2001.

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-declaration-of-independence-of-the-united-states-of-america-1/chapters/1/index.md)