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 ...

FILE - Two volumes of the over 500-year-old Gutenberg Bible are pictured in New York in April 1978. Johannes Gutenberg planned on printing 150 Bibles, but increasing demand motivated him to produce 30 ...

Johannes Gutenberg’s life is shrouded in mystery and conjecture. He was born in Mainz, an affluent city in the lush German Rhineland, on the western side of the Holy Roman Empire. Estimates for his ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not just a book. Back ...

Few people in history have had as great an impact on the world as Johannes Gutenberg. In the 15th century, the German inventor introduced movable-type printing to Europe, sparking a revolution that ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not just a book. Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German ...