A few machines have truly changed the world, such as the wheel, steam engines, or the printing press ... brayer laden with ink over the type blocks and hand press a piece of paper with the ...

Unlike block printing, Gutenberg’s press featured a movable “key ... of a press that mechanised the transfer of ink from movable type to paper”, allowing rapid and cheap mass production ...

. But the most important part of his invention was actually moveable type. Before Gutenberg, the closest Europe had to printing was the woodblock. The woodblock was a piece of wood with all the ...

An “incredibly rare” page from one of the world's first books produced using movable metal type, the Gutenberg Bible, will go ...

The Bible, on display at the Medieval Art Gallery in Warsaw, was printed more than 570 years ago by Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press. It is one of the few preserved copies in the ...

The use of movable type allowed the printing technique to be disseminated in Europe, which is why this innovation by Johannes Gutenberg is considered a great breakthrough. Nevertheless ...