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Print Revolution is probably one of the most important events of the millennium and it greatly helped triggering the Renaissance by spreading learning to the masses. So, the iconic figure I decided to mention comes from the late medieval Europe and is responsible for the invention of the Printing Press, Johannes Gutenberg.Until the middle of 14th century, books were being produced mainly by monks, patiently handwritten for the very wealthy. Woodcut was another technique besides handwriting, which involved inking a piece of wood with the characters carved out (like cutting a wooden stamp of a page).
At around that time Gutenberg brought himself to Strasbourg, a quite vibrant economy and tried to pursuit his goal of building a printing machine in order to mass publish books. Much like a contemporary entrepreneur, he struggled funding his project and worked obsessively for long periods. His idea was to create type elements by tin that could be rearranged in order to form each page of the book he would want to print.
Afterwards, when the page would be created and ink would go at the types, paper would be carefully aligned upon the letters and a press would make sure they leave a stamp.
To reach that result, Gutenberg came up with a handful of interesting inventions most notably the one that reproduced the type elements with tin, the way to align the text and the press.
More information for Gutenberg’s bio and Printing Press can be found:
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