On the 547th death anniversary of German inventor Johannes Gutenberg, we look back at his contributions to the mechanisation of the printing process, which went on to create a revolution... Johannes ...

“The whole world admits unhesitatingly; and there can be no doubt about this, that Gutenberg's invention is the incomparably greatest event in the history of the world”—Mark Twain Recently an American ...

The Gutenberg Bible ranks among the most prized of rare books, but within three centuries of its printing around 1455, its version of Scripture was considered obsolete and its creator, Johannes ...

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was born in Mainz, Germany, around 1400 CE. His father was one of the city’s ‘patricians.’ Young Johannes first trained to be a goldsmith. It is believed ...