Printer

German inventor Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press sometime between 1440 and
1450. Although others before him, including inventors in China and Korea, had developed
portables made from metal, Gutenberg was the first to create a mechanized process for
transferring ink (which he made from linseed oil and soot) to paper. With this process, the
printing press increased the speed of printing books exponentially, and thus (which) led to the
rapid and widespread dissemination of knowledge for the first time in history. In her book “The
Printing Revolution in Modern Europe” (Cambridge University Press, 2012), the late historian
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein wrote that printing presses would be found in every center important city
(every important center) by 1500. It is estimated that up to twenty million volumes were printed
in Western Europe by 1500, although Eisenstein estimates that the number was around eight
million.

Light
The invention of the light bulb changed our world by eliminating our dependence on natural
light, allowing us to be productive at any time, day or night.Several inventors were instrumental
in developing this revolutionary technology throughout the 1800s; Thomas Edison is credited as
the main inventor because he created a fully working lighting system, including a generator and
wiring as well as a carbon filament light bulb, in 1879. Along with ushering in the introduction of
electricity into homes across the Western world, this invention also had a rather surprising
consequence: changing the way people sleep and how long they sleep.