It seems there is a special day for everything. Last Tuesday was National Beagle Day. Our dog thought every day was National ...

. But the most important part of his invention was actually moveable type. Before Gutenberg, the closest Europe had to printing was the woodblock. The woodblock was a piece of wood with all the ...

German scholar Fabian Schrodt (R) experiences and recreates Bi Sheng's movable-type printing at the Bi Sheng Memorial Hall in Yingshan County, central China's ...

Bergmann believes the printing press to be one of the most revolutionary ... actually appeared a couple of hundred years before Johannes Gutenberg’s invention, but did not take off in 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 ...

Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family. Nearly four centuries before Johannes Gutenberg produced the first Bible on a printing press, monks and artisans in China were drawing on their ...

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.