Gutenberg Revolution

 Johannes Gutenberg turned the printing world upside

down and brought on a new era of print with his
revolutionary innovation of movable type in 1445.
 Movable type printing used metal stamps of single
letters that could be arranged into words, sentences and
pages of text.

 Gutenberg’s amazing invention made books the internet of the time.

 Like the internet, books spread new ideas quickly and sped up the
process of change.

 The arrival of mechanical movable type printing introduced the era of

mass communication, which permanently altered the structure of society.
 The printing press was also a factor in the establishment of a community
of scientists who could easily communicate their discoveries through
widely disseminated scholarly journals, helping to bring on the scientific
revolution.