Fortunately, Gutenberg does not appear to have been seriously injured and is expected to be back in action again soon. On Thursday morning, a post began circulating on social media announcing that a ...

The Bible, on display at the Medieval Art Gallery in Warsaw, was printed more than 570 years ago by Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press. It is one of the few preserved copies in ...

A few weeks ago, I got the chance to see "Gutenberg! The Musical" at the James Earl Jones Theatre in New York. Tonight, the show officially opens on Broadway, and I have some thoughts.

The press uses the same method the printing press inventor, Johannes Gutenberg, used in the 1440s, in which movable pieces of type were combined line by line to create a page of text.

Even within Europe, Gutenberg’s Bible was not the first book printed using moveable type. In fact, it isn’t the first book Gutenberg printed on his press. That distinction belongs to Donatus, a small ...

Despite the far-reaching consequences of Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press, much about the man remains a mystery, buried deep beneath layers of Mainz history. The German city of Mainz lies on ...

Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust’s Biblia latina (Mainz, 1454–1455) represents the first substantial book printed from moveable type on a printing press. Without question, it is a milestone in ...

Johann Gutenberg still brought the know-how; Johann Fust still brought the gold, and held the workshop as collateral. Except that now new capital was to be raised, a second round, to get this ...

He persuaded a wealthy lawyer, Johann Fust, whom today we might call an "angel investor", to loan him 800 guilders (a lot of money: Enough to buy several small farms) to set up a shop, and 300 ...

The rise, fall, and redemption of the Father of the Information Age. August 24, 1456. On or near this day, the great Bible from Johann Gutenberg's press emerged complete from the bindery in Mainz ...

The rise, fall, and redemption of the Father of the Information Age. August 24, 1456. On or near this day, the great Bible from Johann Gutenberg’s press emerged complete from the bindery in ...