Knowledge is power, as the saying goes, and the invention of the mechanical movable type printing press helped disseminate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlike the Gutenberg printing press, named after its inventor Johannes Gutenberg, the Korean press takes its name from the ...

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.