Who is Johannes Gutenberg?

Johannes Gutenberg is famous for inventing the printing press in 1450 in Germany. You can trace the roots of the information age – the modern era marked by the spread of information and the explosive growth of the Internet – back to a workshop in Strasbourg, Germany, in the mid-1400s here, a blacksmith named Johannes Gutenberg took old printing technologies and added movable type (tiny metal pieces imprinted with letters) to create the first printing press. Before his invention, books were written by hand or using much slower printing technologies. They were luxuries only for the wealthy or officials of the church. Gutenberg’s press could churn out thousands of pages per day, making books less expensive and information more widely available. Many consider his press one of the most important inventions in history.

 

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