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The printing press, credited to the German inventor and printer Johannes Gutenberg (l. c. 1398-1468) in the 1450s, became the single most important factor in the success of the Protestant Reformation by...

Johannes Gutenberg (l. c. 1398-1468) was the inventor of the printing press (c. 1450) who seems to have developed the device from wine and oil presses of the time. Gutenberg’s printing press not only revolutionized book making...

The arrival in Europe of the printing press with moveable metal type in the 1450s CE was an event which had enormous and long-lasting consequences. The German printer Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1398-1468 CE...

Printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg (l. c. 1398-1468). Gutenberg Museum, Mainz.

Franklin the printer, photograph of a painting by artist Charles E. Mills, c. 1914. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Stephen Fry takes a look inside the story of Johann Gutenberg, inventor of the world's first printing press in the 15th century, and an exploration of how and why the machine...

A video on the moveable type printing press, an invention credited to Johannes Gutenberg in the 1540s CE in Mainz, Germany.

A mid-19th-century scene by Utagawa Kunisada fancifully showing fashionable Japanese women creating books using woodblock printing techniques.

A replica of Johannes Gutenberg's printing press at the Featherbed Alley Printshop Museum, Bermuda.

The vacillating nature of Ancient Egypt's associations with the Kingdom of Kerma may be described as one of expansion and contraction; a virtual tug-of-war between rival cultures. Structural changes in Egypt's...