Johannes Gutenberg

KNOWN FOR:

• In 1450, Johannes invented a printing press that increased the number of books made and the printing press also made it easier to read the books

Printing press

FAMOSE QUOTE:

• It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams...Through it, God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men.

5 FACTS ON GUTENBERG

• Born in Mainz, Germany in the late 1390s.
• He was a blacksmith, and the son of a goldsmith
• He switched out the wooden blocks on the printing press with medal ones
• First book printed was the bible, in German, French, and English.
• He owned a printing shop, which he lost most of it due to his debt.

Bible guttenberg printed

Blocks he replaced

His press could print 240 copies per hour