1455: Gutenberg Printing Press

The Printing Press that Revolutionized the World: Gutenberg and His Movable Type
Though printing was in use long before goldsmith Johann Gutenberg's time—especially with the Chinese—Gutenberg made it available to the public through his movable type press. Although the press has no surviving blueprints, it is known that his machine was similar to the olive and wine presses—a wooden device based on a moving screw at the center, through which the operator could apply pressure to the object being manufactured. Gutenberg and his assistants would lay out the movable type, letter by letter, until it formed the page they desired to print. This type was housed in a wooden box, and was moistened with an oil-based ink. When the paper was laid on top of the type, and pressed with the wooden screw device, one page was printed. Although it still took a very long time to print each page, the process was faster than the hand-lettered books of the day, and still preserved the beautiful handwork of the scribes. Gutenberg's invention of the printing press also helped to spread the fires of the Protestant Reformation, as Bibles, books, and other written works were spread to the public and other printing firms began to be established. The Bible—the first item printed on his press—was the 42-line Latin Bible, a beautiful copy of the Scriptures and a monument to both printing and the Word of God.

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• Renaissance

[Luciferminusone]

It's amazing without the printing press we wouldn't have libraries.

[larreynaga1]

Printing, for those who don't know was an other Chinese Invention , Gutenberg only work on foudry types created by him back the they used wood blocks for printing. The bottom line is with this invention the Bible and the rest of printed objects became more affordable. By coincidence happens in Germany, Maguncia at the earliest years of the Europe's Renaissance.

[jumppack1]

@Goldpferd they also used metal movable type(found in Korea), if u think Gutenberg invented that ur foolish. do some simple research, or dont, and u can keep thinking that the most advanced ancient civilization never thought to press something heavy down onto clay molds of characters with paper inbetween.

[Goldpferd]

@jumppack1

Asians used woodblock printing, they didn't have printing presses until Europeans arrived.

Stop talking shit.

[TheAmazingamerica]

@jumppack1 so jealous of you!

[jkelly6620]

Great video.  Thank you.

[HACKR013]

total nerd shit

[jumppack1]

the very first printed word, pffft this guy knows about gutenberg, not about history. china and korea were using moveable type and thier own printing presses before gutenberg was born.

[nickozcyprus]

I can't understand most of the words used in this. Does anyone have a transcript?

[Normalfts]

This helps when I can actually see it work. Thank You!