Johann Gutenberg

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (circa 1398 – 3 Februar, 1468), a German metal-worker an inventor, got fame for his contreibutions ti the technology o printin in the 1450s, sic as a type metal alloy an ile-based inks, a mould for castin type accurately, an a neow kind o printin press based on presses uised in wine-makkin. Tradeition credits him wi inventin movable type in Europe, a betterment o the block printin uised there afore. By jyning these elements intil a production seistem, he stairted the snell printin of written materials an an information explosion in Renaissance Europe.

There are monie statues o Gutenberg in Germany, ane o the mair kenspeckle bein a wark bi Thorvaldsen, in Mainz, that is hame to the Gutenberg Museum forbye.

The Gutenberg Galaxy and Project Gutenberg commemorate Gutenberg's name.

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English Hamepage o the Gutenberg-Museum Mainz / Germany
Life and work of Johannes Gutenberg
BL.uk - 'Diamond Sutra' (warld’s auldest survivin full dated printed beuk, circa AD 868)
Silk-Road.com - 'Printing' (historical owerview o printin)
UTexas.edu - 'The Digital Gutenberg Project' (the Gutenberg Bible in 1,300 digital eimages, ilka page o the University of Texas copy)
HistoireetGeographie.free.fr - 'Biographie de Johannes Gutenberg, inventeur de l'Imprimerie' (a French biography of Gutenberg)

German inventors | Printers | 1398 births | 1468 deaths

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