Google has replaced their homepage logo with a Doodle honoring Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the movable type printing press, which led to “The Printing Revolution.” Johannes Gensfleisch zur ...

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We still speak of “turning a page,” still aspire to be “open books” and recite “chapter and verse,” but our pages are now webpages, our books are now e-books and audiobooks, and our chapters and ...

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Next, in 1450, Gutenberg finally perfected his device and made his first wholly successful print, which happened to be a Latin book about making speeches. Things picked up spectacularly from there, ...

The printing press, one of the most important inventions in human history, was developed around the same time by two very different cultures, separated by vast distances. Was it serendipity? Or a ...

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April 14 (UPI) --Google is celebrating German craftsman Johannes Gutenberg who invented the mechanical moveable type printing press, with a new Google. The invention made books affordable and ...