Download or read book Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press written by Diana Childress and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can one invention really change the world? Before the mid-fifteenth century, books were printed by hand, making them rare and expensive. Reading and learning remained a privilege of the wealthy—until Johannes Gutenberg developed a machine called the printing press. Gutenberg, a German metalworker, began in the 1440s by making movable type—small metal letters that were arranged to form words and sentences, replacing handwritten letters. Movable type fit into frames on the printing press, and the press then produced many copies of the same page. As movable type and the printing press made book production much faster and less expensive, reading material of all kinds became available to a far wider audience. In Gutenberg’s time, Europe was already on the brink of a new age—an explosion of world exploration, scientific discoveries, and political and religious changes. Gutenberg’s printing press helped propel Europe into the modern era, and his legacy remains in the thousands of books and newspapers printed each year to keep us informed, entertained, and connected. Indeed, Gutenberg’s development of the printing press became one of history’s pivotal moments.
Download or read book Johannes Gutenberg written by Fran Rees and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johannes Gutenberg, a man of the Renaissance, developed a printing press and transformed the world of books.
Download or read book Johann Gutenberg Cl written by Bruce Koscielniak and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the modern printing industry, including how paper and ink are made, looking particularly at the printing press invented by Gutenberg around 1450 but also at its precursors.
Download or read book Johannes Gutenberg Printing Press Innovator written by Sue Vander Hook and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the remarkable life of Johannes Gutenberg and his innovation of the printing press. Readers will learn about Gutenberg's background and education, as well as his creation of the Gutenberg Bible for the Catholic Church. Color photos, detailed maps, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Publishing Pioneers is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
Download or read book Johannes Gutenberg written by Henry Freeman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-22 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johannes Gutenberg Archimedes once said, "Give me but a firm spot on which to stand and I shall move the earth." Well, Johannes Gutenberg must have been standing on granite because his impact on the world has been earth-shattering. Before his time, books were a rarity, only affordable for the rich or influential. So, in order to make books accessible for everyone, Gutenberg invented a printing press using movable type. Inside you will read about... - Gutenberg's Early Childhood - The Printing Press - Impact of German Movable Type Printing Press - Gutenberg's Books - Later Life and Death And much more! Printing became faster and cheaper. Suddenly books were available everywhere, which led to the lower classes in society learning to read and to write. People were discovering books, but they were unearthing much more than what they were reading. There was an explosion of information, very much like the Information Age of today, which set people on quests for the truth. This would lead to the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment, where fundamental human truths were challenged at every level. And it all started with a book.
Download or read book Fine Print written by Joann Johansen Burch and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although he is credited with changing history through his invention of printing, Johann Gutenberg remains mysterious. In Fine Print, author Joann Johansen Burch pieces together Gutenberg's amazing story. When Johann was a child in the early 1400s, books were rare and sometimes very expensive. Each book had to be copied by hand, letter by letter. Gutenberg loved to read, and he often grew impatient waiting for the time-consuming bookmaking process to be completed. Young Gutenberg dreamed of finding a better way to make books. From his childhood in strife-torn Mainz through the many years of setbacks and bankruptcies, Gutenberg persevered in his belief that books could be made quickly and inexpensively. This is the story of the man who invented movable type and the printing press and gave the world the gift of books.
Download or read book Johann Gutenberg the Inventor of Printing written by Victor Scholderer and published by London : British Museum. This book was released on 1970 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Justification of Johann Gutenberg written by Blake Morrison and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 1400, in the city of Mainz, a man was born whose heretical invention was to change history. Some sixty years later he died — robbed of his business, his printing presses, and, so he thought, his immortality. In his dazzling first novel, Morrison gives us Gutenberg’s “testament” — his justification, dictated to one of the young scribes his invention will soon put out of work. Thus Morrison conjures up the haunting figure of Gutenberg himself: a man who gambled everything — money, honour, friendship and a woman’s love — on the greatest invention of the last millennium.
Download or read book Who in the World Was the Secretive Printer written by Robert Beckham and published by Peace Hill Press. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Johannes Gutenberg from his boyhood to his development of movable type and the printing press in Germany in the early 15th century. - Title page verso.
Download or read book Johannes Gutenberg written by Stephen Feinstein and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and career of Johannes Gutenberg, including the history of written text before his invention of the movable type press, and the advancements in printing made after his death.
Download or read book How the Printing Press Changed the World written by Avery Elizabeth Hurt and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon its invention in the mid-1400s, the printing press instantly became a revolutionary device. It introduced literacy to the masses and led Europe out of the Middle Ages. This book explores the press' exciting history, the social and political conditions in place at the time Johannes Gutenberg invented it, and the changes the invention wrought afterward. It traces the evolution of moveable type and information dissemination up to modern electronic communications technology, examining the positive and negative effects of these developments, both in the past and on democracy and humankind today. This book will give readers a new appreciation for the written word, whether it is printed on paper or displayed on a screen.
Download or read book Johann Gutenberg and the Printing Press written by Kay Melchisedech Olson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Johann Gutenberg and the invention of the printing press. Written in graphic-novel format.
Download or read book Johannes Gutenberg Man of the Millennium A Brief Look at the Printing Revolution and the Power of Books written by Aaron J. Keirns and published by Little River Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to the life and work of Johannes Gutenberg, the man who invented the printing press. Gutenberg has been called the "Man of the Millennium" by Time-Life Magazine and others. In the mid-15th century he developed the first practical system for making movable type. His invention allowed books to be mass produced for the first time in history. This book contains a wealth of information about Gutenberg and his invention. It has many fascinating photographs and illustrations, including a simplified schematic that shows how Gutenberg made his movable metal type. Today we take books for granted. But before Gutenberg's printing press, books were a luxury only the wealthy could afford. Gutenberg's invention changed our world forever. The ability to reproduce books efficiently and economically launched humanity into a new age of information, education and enlightenment for the masses. This is the story of a remarkable man and his magnificent machine.
Download or read book Johann Gutenberg and the Printing Press written by Kay Melchisedech Olson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In graphic novel format, tells the story of Johann Gutenberg and the invention of the printing press.
Download or read book Gutenberg written by Stephan Füssel and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named “Man of the Millennium” in 1999, Johannes Gutenberg was the creator of one of the most influential and revolutionary inventions in Europe’s history: a printing press with mechanical movable type. This development sparked the printing revolution, which is regarded as the milestone of the second millennium and represents one of the central contributions in the turn to modernity. His printing press came to play a key role in the development of the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Age of Enlightenment, providing the material foundation for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses. His invention revolutionized the way that information is shared and broadened the boundaries of who has access to written knowledge. Paving the way for bibliophiles of today, the Gutenberg Bible of 1454 remains one of the most famous books in history. Gutenberg’s technical innovations remained unrivalled for almost 350 years, until industrialization of the printing industry and the digital revolution built on the advances that he began, increasing the rate at which information is spread. Despite his significance in forming the world as we know it, there has not yet been a rigorous and accessible biography of Gutenberg published in English. Written by the leading expert on Gutenberg, Füssel’s biography brings together high academic standards and thorough historical details in a highly readable text that conveys everything you need to know about the man who changed printing forever.
Download or read book Thirty More Famous Stories Retold written by James Baldwin and published by E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books. This book was released on 2024-02-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS discovered America on the 12th of October, 1492. He had spent eighteen years in planning for that wonderful first voyage which he made across the Atlantic Ocean. The thoughts and hopes of the best part of his life had been given to it. He had talked and argued with sailors and scholars and princes and kings, saying, "I know that, by sailing west across the great ocean, one may at last reach lands that have never been visited by Europeans." But he had been laughed at as a foolish dreamer, and few people had any faith in his projects. At last, however, the king and queen of Spain gave him ships with which to make the trial voyage. He crossed the ocean and discovered strange lands, inhabited by a people unlike any that had been known before. He believed that these lands were a part of India. When he returned home with the news of his discovery there was great rejoicing, and he was hailed as the hero who had given a new world to Spain. Crowds of people lined the streets through which he passed, and all were anxious to do him honor. The king and queen welcomed him to their palace and listened with pleasure to the story of his voyage. Never had so great respect been shown to any common man. But there were some who were jealous of the discoverer, and as ready to find fault as others were to praise. "Who is this Columbus?" they asked, "and what has he done? Is he not a pauper pilot from Italy? And could not any other seaman sail across the ocean just as he has done?" One day Columbus was at a dinner which a Spanish gentleman had given in his honor, and several of these persons were present. They were proud, conceited fellows, and they very soon began to try to make Columbus uncomfortable. "You have discovered strange lands beyond the sea," they said. "But what of that? We do not see why there should be so much said about it. Anybody can sail across the ocean; and anybody can coast along the islands on the other side, just as you have done. It is the simplest thing in the world." Columbus made no answer; but after a while he took an egg from a dish and said to the company, "Who among you, gentlemen, can make this egg stand on end?"
Download or read book The Printing Press written by Samuel Willard Crompton and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Johannes Gutenberg invented his printing press almost 700 years ago, he effectively changed the world.
