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In 1440, Johannes Gutenberg invented a new type of movable print- the printing press. Gutenberg was a goldsmith born in Mainz in 1397, and went on to develop his press in the Holy Roman Empire. He saw the printing press as a financial opportunity, due to the high cost of books at the time. Prior to his groundbreaking invention, knowledge was very much limited to the royalty or the religious order because attaining access to any sort of literature was a painstaking task. In order to have a copy…

social media, mass media has continued to affected culture throughout history. The printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century, made the mass production of print media possible. New transportation technologies make it easier for texts to reach a wide audience. Friedrich Koenig, a German printer, pushed media production even further when he hooked the steam engine up to a printing press in 1800. This increased efficiency helped lead to the rise of the daily newspaper. When…

printing press, the printing press is the greatest invention of all time for a few reasons. The printing press allowed people to purchase books for a cheaper price and to learn more without having a teacher telling them what they need to know. The invention of the printing press also made a lot of the stories and information that people spread a lot more precise and correct. Before the printing press came to be, almost all of the information that was out in the open got distorted and mixed up.…

My biography is about an inventor named Johannes Gutenberg which is short for Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg. Johannes Gutenberg was born in the year of 1395 in Mainz, Germany. Gutenberg's nationality was German. He was born in a modest family. I do know he had siblings, but I could not find any information about their names or anything else. Gutenberg was the third son of Freile zum Gensfleisch and Else Wirick zum Gutenberg which was his father's second wife. He got the name…

semester I had completely changed my lifestyle, cleaning up my diet and becoming more active. One personal story about how chalk has helped me in my powerlifting was when I was trying to beat my personal deadlift record. No matter how hard I squeezed the bar and held on, I always dropped the bar three-quarters of the up. I was about to quit then I remembered that I might have a bit of leftover chalk in my bag. So I grabbed the chalk, chalked up my hands and tried again. Just like that I was able…

Leonardo Da Vinci, Galileo, and Michelangelo are names that would go down in history, because of their work in the arts, and sciences. Galileo, Da Vinci, and Michelangelo helped the Renaissance, become so influential.The Renaissance is remembered in history due to its inventions, and other discoveries. The Renaissance, spanned from the early 1400s to the early 1600s. It was mainly in eastern Europe and western Asia. Technology, Science, and Math gave the Renaissance it’s place in the history…

and the printing press. While all three have been respectively relevant throughout history, with gun powder changing the face of modern warfare; the compass evolved into the GPS and other direction giving devices. The printing press is the one invention that still stands out as one of the most positively beneficial inventions of all time, because of its ability to duplicate and spread knowledge to the masses. Creating a well informed and better educated public. The printing press fulfilled…

The Printing press started an era of education and freedom, starting in Mainz, Germany with its creator Gutenberg. The Printing press was the first mechanical printing system that allowed the general public, and even the lower classes, access to books. Locations of the printing press boomed from 1471 to 1500 showing all of the information being spread in different locations. (DOC A) Due to the printing press, many changes and new discoveries were able to happen. Two important consequences of the…

Gutenberg and the Printing Press https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xs4sg92XYJZ5VS9UWbj_8JDKD0WVQvn4yZcaRv4vXP8/edit?usp=sharing If you had been Gutenberg, would you have died a happy man or considered your life a failure? Why? I would have died a happy man if I were Gutenberg, because I would have made one of the best inventions in the world. Where would we be without printing books we would still be writing them if it wasn’t for Gutenburg we could probably only fill up like seven libraries…

Science In the 2nd through 8th century AD, the emperor of china had demanded that the six china confucianism classics be engraved in stone so that the people of China would have a real version of the china confucianism stories. As a result of the engraved texts, Confucian scholars placed black pieces of paper on the engraved sculptures and rub charcoal or graphite on the paper to have white texts against a dark paper and the emperors carved texts in a raised form before applying ink to the…