The Huntington has acquired a print of Jesus in the Mount of Olives that had been pasted inside its Gutenberg Bible for 400 ...

2. Press for Printing The printing press, a revolutionary invention by Johannes Gutenberg in 1440 CE, had a profound impact on the spread of knowledge, surpassing any other technology before the ...

So when, in the mid-15th century, Gutenberg invented the printing press, it became so much more than a machine. Ideas could be replicated by the thousands, making it the first great equaliser of ...

. 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 ...

When Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1440, he surely could never have imagined just how much it would change the lives of people all over the world for centuries to come.

Jackson added that the most important thing to remember about the Gutenberg Bible was that it avoided any of the primitive characteristics usually soon in a new invention. Want to keep up with ...

Printing technology was improved and refined over the next few centuries, but the process remained largely the same as in the days of Gutenberg until 1814, when the invention of the mechanised ...

the Gutenberg Bible also had an impact on important trends in the visual arts. Artists at the time also used prints, then a modern invention, in order to create their own works. “Although it ...