5/20/2023 0 Comments Movable type printing press![]() Gutenberg surely knew nothing about them when he invented his printing press. They had no effect on society outside the nobility. Nearly all of the elements of modern printing started in Asia. Printing block for Chinese paper currency from Shanxi Provincial Museum, Taiyuan, Ancient Coins Gallery / Photo by Gary Todd via Flickr Most important, he was the first to see printing words on paper as a business. And he was apparently the first to see the possibilities of a wine press for printing. Gutenberg wasn’t the first to use movable type or metal type, but he couldn’t have known about earlier uses. ![]() But he has our homage for what he said to the reproaching angel in his dream has come true, and the evil wrought through his mighty invention is immeasurably outbalanced by the good it has brought to the race of men. Whatever the world is, today, good and bad together, that is what Gutenberg’s invention has made it: for from that source it has all come. It has added new details, new developments and new marvels to both in every year during five centuries. It created a new and wonderful earth, and along with it a new hell. The world concedes without hesitation or dispute that Gutenberg’s invention is incomparably the mightiest event that has ever happened in profane history. But no one else in the history of printing had nearly his influence. Like much of what everyone knows, it’s not quite true. McGraw Rotunda of the New York Public Library, 1938-1942./ Photo by Wally Gobetz via FlickrĪs everyone knows, Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable type printing press. Gutenberg Showing a Proof to the Elector of Mainz / Mural by Edward Laning.
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