The printing press was a machine invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1451 that completely innovated the way in which people record and copy information (Butler). It used a system of letter blocks which were organized into the desired order and then printed onto paper with ink (Whipps). That order could then be copied and reused many times until the blocks broke or changed to print something different, which made it a much faster, more efficient, and more reliable method of recording information than having scribes write each book or paper by hand (Whipps). The invention of the printing press allowed Europeans to read more and caused information and ideas to spread more quickly (Butler). This in turn made them a more intelligent, free-thinking
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First of all, the process of printing has evolved over the years and gotten far more technological, complex, and efficient, but modern day printers still stem from the original printing press Gutenberg made over five hundred years ago (“Printing Yesterday and Today”). Nowadays, printers are used in a wide variety of fields and are present at almost every business, school, and office supply store, as well as many houses. Printers are a large part of our lives that we rely on for almost everything official as well as basic uses like papers for school and they evolved from the printing press, which shows the impact it still has on society today. Also, some of the ideas and knowledge that the printing press helped to facilitate the spread of are still impacting the world currently. For instance, because of the printing press allowing its ideas to spread faster, the Protestant Reformation was very effective in breaking up the Church into a lot of smaller ones with slightly different beliefs (Butler). Today, many of the churches formed by reformers during that time, like the Lutheran and Presbyterian Churches, are still in existence today and Christianity is divided among them and no longer one giant church (“The Reformation”). Finally, the discoveries and developments made during the Scientific Revolution that the printing press assisted, like the work of Sir Isaac Newton and Galileo, made a lasting impact on history and are still useful today (“Enlightenment”). The printing press had such a large impact on the world that it still has a great effect on modern western
First of all, the process of printing has evolved over the years and gotten far more technological, complex, and efficient, but modern day printers still stem from the original printing press Gutenberg made over five hundred years ago (“Printing Yesterday and Today”). Nowadays, printers are used in a wide variety of fields and are present at almost every business, school, and office supply store, as well as many houses. Printers are a large part of our lives that we rely on for almost everything official as well as basic uses like papers for school and they evolved from the printing press, which shows the impact it still has on society today. Also, some of the ideas and knowledge that the printing press helped to facilitate the spread of are still impacting the world currently. For instance, because of the printing press allowing its ideas to spread faster, the Protestant Reformation was very effective in breaking up the Church into a lot of smaller ones with slightly different beliefs (Butler). Today, many of the churches formed by reformers during that time, like the Lutheran and Presbyterian Churches, are still in existence today and Christianity is divided among them and no longer one giant church (“The Reformation”). Finally, the discoveries and developments made during the Scientific Revolution that the printing press assisted, like the work of Sir Isaac Newton and Galileo, made a lasting impact on history and are still useful today (“Enlightenment”). The printing press had such a large impact on the world that it still has a great effect on modern western