. But the most important part of his invention was actually moveable type. Before Gutenberg, the closest Europe had to printing was the woodblock. The woodblock was a piece of wood with all the ...

It was this invention that was eventually taken over to the West and used by Gutenberg for the printing of the Bible. Needless to say, this had a profound effect on the nature of knowledge and the ...

Human innovation has shaped the world as we know it. From the invention of the wheel 5,500 years ago, to the internet's ...

Gutenberg didn’t live to see the immense impact of his invention. His greatest accomplishment was the first print run of the Bible in Latin, which took three years to print around 200 copies ...

Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg ...

Information is power. Who gets to distribute information and how has shaped the course of history. After Johannes Gutenberg ...

Jackson added that the most important thing to remember about the Gutenberg Bible was that it avoided any of the primitive characteristics usually soon in a new invention. Want to keep up with ...

Johannes Gutenberg, James Watt, Samuel Morse, Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla and so on. This group has certainly invented many an amazing thing, but so have many others. While filming The Nature ...

Goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press close to the town of Mainz in Germany in the middle of the Rheinhessen, which remains the largest wine-producing region of the ...

A traveling museum that paints the history of communication will bring Bibles and a replica of the Gutenberg printing press that changed the world to College early next week. The Enduring Word Museum ...

A remarkable new exhibition at Marsh's Library in Dublin offers a rare opportunity to see books printed in the decades after the invention of printing by Johannes Gutenberg in the 1450s.