These pioneers included German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg, who developed a press that would eventually see him recognised as the father of modern-day printing. “Integral to Gutenberg’s ...

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. 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 ...

Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German inventor decided to make the most of his new technology — the movable-type printing press — by producing an unprecedented version of the ...

That text was spread throughout the Western world thanks to the newly invented printing press.

An engraving showing a Gutenberg printing press. Before Johannes Gutenberg's invention, reproducing a book involved copying it by hand. All across Europe, the printing press was revolutionising ...

When Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1440, he surely could never have imagined just how much it would change the lives of people all over the world for centuries to come.