In case anyone out there doesn’t know …
Johannes Gutenberg is famous for having designed and built the first printing press to incorporate movable type and mechanized inking and for using his invention to produce the Gutenberg Bible.
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg[b] (c. 1393–1406 – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press enabled a much faster rate of printing. The printing press later spread across the world, and led to an information revolution and the unprecedented mass-spread of literature throughout Europe. It had a profound impact on the developme G...
The Gutenberg Printing Press:
A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. It marked a dramatic improvement on earlier printing methods, in which the medium was brushed or rubbed repeatedly to achieve the transfer of ink. The invention and global spread of the printing press was one of the most influential events in the second millennium.
In Germany, around 1440, the goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg invent...
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