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JOHANNES GUTENBERG

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Brief notice about Johannes Gutenberg

                      Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg  was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe. His invention of mechanical movable type printing started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important event of the modern period.It played a key role in the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, and the Scientific revolution and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses.

                    The exact origin of Gutenberg's first press is apparently unknown, and several authors cite his earliest presses as adaptations of heavier binding presses which were already in use. Tradition credits him with inventing movable type in Europe—an improvement on the block printing already in use there. By combining these elements into a production system, he allowed for the rapid printing of written materials, and an information explosion in renaissanc Europe. An iron printing press was first invented by Chae Yun-eui from goyeo Dynasty (an ancient Korean nation, and also, the origin of the name "Korea") in 1234, over two hundred years ahead of Gutenberg's feat, and the first movable type was invented by chines Bi Sheng between 1041 to 1048 C.E.           

⧭unknown story of gohanes gutenberg 

A thief once tried to steal a Gutenberg Bible from Harvard University’s library

                      In 1969, a man named Vido Aras hid in a bathroom in Harvard’s Widener Library until after the building had closed. He slinked to the roof and used a rope to climb into the window of the room where the University kept its copy of the Gutenberg Bible. 
                        Aras succeeded in prizing the two volumes from their case and stashing them in his knapsack, but when he tried to climb back up the rope, he found that the 70-pound tome weighed him down. 
                     After struggling for a time, the would-be thief lost his grip and tumbled six stories to the ground below, where he was found the next morning. The Gutenberg Bible was recovered with only minor damage. Aras, on the other hand, suffered a fractured skull.