Johanne Gutenberg - c. 1450 - Gutenberg is the famous
inventor of movable type machines. Around 1455 Gutenberg
produced a practical and inexpensive copy of the Bible. In the next
century the technology exploded across Europe, from 1 to 100, to
1000 printers across Europe. In the sixteenth century, Gutenberg's
movable type apparatus, also coined ``printing press,'' had been
used to produce more than 10 million copies of 40,000 titles.
Printing became one of the largest industries in Europe, and has had
a monumental impact on Western Civilization.
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