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John Guttenberg

JOHANN GOTENBERG

1400 - 1468 AD

John Gutenberg is called the inventor of printing, but in fact his work was to develop the primitive method of using movable characters and the typewriter in a way that made many types of written matter easy to type with speed and accuracy.

It is known that there is no invention that appears and is full of advantages from the work of a single human being. This applies to printing. Large seals and signature rings that work on the same principle as printing had been known in China for several centuries before Gutenberg. A printed book dating back to about 868 AD was discovered. The printing process was known in the West before Gutenberg, and that printing by means of wooden or stone blocks made it possible to produce several copies of a specific book, but this process had its disadvantages, as long as it was necessary to make wooden pieces or stone panels for each new book, and therefore this method was It is impractical to produce many varieties of various books.

It is sometimes said that Joe Tinberg's contribution in this regard is his invention of the animated letters and with . So we see that the mobile letters were also invented in China around the middle of the twelfth century by a man named Bai Sheng, and the letters he used were made of porcelain, which was not durable, but improvements were made in this way by Chinese and Korean men, and before Gutenberg appeared, the Koreans They use metal characters, and it was found that the Korean government was supporting an institution for the production of printing characters in the early fifteenth century. Despite all this, it is wrong to think that Bai Sheng was the one who was influential in this field. The fact is that Europe did not know anything about the vowels that were Used in China but developed independently. In the second place, movable type printing did not become generally in use in China itself until relatively late times, when advanced European printing began to spread.

There are four important elements in the printing process, the first of which is the moving letters and putting them in place, second: the printing machine itself, third: the appropriate type of ink and finding the appropriate material, i.e. the paper on which to print.

And that Joe Tinberg's preference for printing is to collect all the previous important elements and put them in an effective system with a yield in production. He introduced the world to the method of mass production which is one of the hallmarks of modern world civilization.

The information about Gutenberg's life is, in fact, scant. It is known that he was born around the year 1400 AD in the city of Mainz in Germany. He began with honey in printing in the middle of the fourteenth century, and that the best book he printed is the so-called Gutenberg Torah. He did not appear to be a successful businessman, as he could not earn much money from his invention. He was involved in judicial trials, one of which ended with the confiscation of his printing machine in favor of his partner, Johann Fast. Gutenberg died in 1468 in Mainz.