Johannes Gutenberg: The First Printing Press

The printing press is one of the most effective technologies that was highly impactful on today’s history. It revolutionized the way in which we share ideas with each other and helped enhance this communication. Invented in 1440 by Johannes Gutenberg in the Holy Roman Empire, people all over the world were able to read works of others who were across the world. The printing press was one of the most important inventions that changed the history of mankind. Even though the printing press affected the Reformation, it had an even larger impact on Exploration by inspiring others to explore and to create more maps.

Everyday people read newspapers and books, but where did printing begin? The movable type printing press by Johannes Gutenberg made this all possible. Johannes first conceived of this idea of the printing press in the 15th century in order to speed up the slow process of producing books (Bantwal). The movable type printing press, the first real technology of its kind, helped to solve problems, but in turn also caused problems. This technology did influence many areas of life in its lifespan. This includes challenging the church and poisoning people with the increased toxins from mass products of materials. Depending on one’s point of view, this invention could be the best or worst thing to happen during the 15th century. Regardless of

In the eighteenth century printers were more like today's publishers than simple typesetters. A successful printer needed to be a researcher, writer, and editor as well as the technician who set the type and printed the page. Franklin excelled at this craft and learned to write well on many subjects. He published at age twelve his first of many works and continued to write until his death.

He learned to read when he was four years old. His dad sent him to school to be a pastor. They quickly learned that a pastor just wasn't right for him so that's when he went into the printing business with his brother.

Johannes Gutenberg is best known for his invention of the printing press, otherwise known as the Gutenberg Press, an innovative printing machine, which uses movable type. Gutenberg was a goldsmith and business from the mining town of Mainz, Southern Germany. He was born between 1394 and 1400, in Mainz, Germany to the Gensfleisch aristocrat family. As a teenager Gutenberg worked in a mint, where he gained experience in metalwork. He realised that if he could use cut blocks with his machine, he could make the printing process a lot faster.

Due to the advancement of printing technology, specifically Gutenberg 's printing press around 1450, notated music could be produced at a much higher capacity. The printing of liturgical books, however, did not commence until 1473, but it rapidly increased until Ottaviano Petrucci had printed 59 volumes of sheet music by 1523.1 Nevertheless, the process was slow and tedious. Grout and Palisca note:

Johannes Gutenberg had an impact on society both then and now. Gutenberg made modern printing possible, and launched an intellectual,religious,and political revolution. Gutenberg printed the first bible in 1455. The printing of books lead to people wanting to gain knowledge and wisdom.He invented the movable type that we still use in today society. Without him there wouldn't be no books,newspapers, and magazines.

In 1350 the renaissance had begun, it was the time to bring back and restore many things from the past. Many people from the renaissance time tried to make a living on their own by painting and writing books. Although it seemed very hard to spread their ideas around the world but until 1444 their worries began to shrink. A man from Germany named Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, which made possible for people to have copies of books and letters in much lesser time than they were used to. The invention of the printing press was one of most notable inventions from the last millennium because it brought very important changes and accomplishments in the whole world that we can still

Imagine if you owed someone hundreds of items, while working on an important project, what would you do? Johannes Gutenberg decided if he did nothing, his life would be wasted away, so he went straight to work. Johannes Gutenberg was born in Mainz, France. Gutenberg had many crazy (QA) things happen in his young life, including being exiled to another country! He worked (SV.)

Johannes Vermeer (1632 –1675) was born in Delft, Holland in October 1632 into the Calvanist tradition, during the Dutch Golden Age. He was introduced to the world of art, particularly painting, by his father. His father owned a tavern, frequented by artists and dealers and by the time his father died in 1652, the twenty year old Vermeer was left with much debt but also a great enthusiasm for art. Considered too young to be an artist by the Dutch Guild, he would need another six years apprenticeship to one or more masters.

After watch your video I have to tell you that I like that you had elected Gutenberg, because he invented the printing press, an invention that allowed to print large quantities of books, a decisive fact that contributed to expand the Renaissance’s ideas fastly. This invention has evolved along the centuries and today all the manual procedures have been replaced by digital printers that work faster. In my opinion, Gutenberg have had an important role in the culture and deserves to appear in notes

In 1428 Johanne’s family was exiled and they moved to what is now strasbourg, France where he had the first idea of movable type press.He developed small metal type.Hundreds of years before Gutenberg was born, movable type had been used in Asia, but Gutenberg's movable type really inspired and eased the use of metal movable type, and made production easier. After Gutenberg moved back to Germany in 1448 he right away started on his next goal and by 1450 he opened his print shop. He borrowed

Johannes Gutenberg invented the first movable-printing press in the fifteenth century. The printing press affected Europe’s political, cultural, economic, and social development in the centuries that followed. According to Reader, “The eighteenth century saw a rapid expansion in the publication of books, periodicals, and pamphlets, which allowed wide dissemination of these new ideas, and with that, the early stages of public opinion” (24). The availability of paper and spreading of books, allowed various classes of people, many of whom had not previously been exposed to books, to read and interpret different ideas and publication. Access to different points of views caused tension between those in power and the lower classes. One specific example was the access to the Bible, which led to the lower classes questioning the foundations of the Church. In addition, the spread of ideas and power to publish their individual thoughts led to Enlightenment thinking and increased individualism. The idea that people should learn from their own experiences and learn to challenge what they are taught and search for real facts, made living in Europe with an educated, self-governing public possible.

The concept of inkjet printing originated in the 20th century, and the technology was first extensively developed in the early 1950s. Starting in the late 1970s inkjet printers that could reproduce digital images generated by computers were developed, mainly by Epson, Hewlett-Packard (HP), and Canon. Although inkjet printers only appeared on the consumer market in the late 1980s, they had been under development for more than twenty years by that time. In the mid-1970s, printer companies realized the potential of the technology that would make dot matrix printers obsolete. The challenge, however, was to come up with a way to create an affordable inkjet printer that would reliably create high-quality print outs .In the worldwide consumer market, four manufacturers account for the majority of inkjet printer sales: Canon, HP, Epson, and Lexmark, a 1991 spin-off from IBM.[1]( "IBM Archives: 1990s". 03.ibm.com. Retrieved 2012-09-12.)

While he was printing books in Mainz, word was getting out all over Europe about how great this invention was. The letters were clearly legible from the metal types he used. Before he died, printing presses like the one’s he invented were being used all over Europe to spread the ideas of many other happy people.