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Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press enabled a much faster rate of printing. The printing press later spread across the world, and led to an information revolution and the unprecedented mass-spread of literature t…
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science · German inventor and craftsman (c. 1393–1406 – 1468) · inventor · typographer · engraver · engineer · blacksmith · goldsmith · mintmaster · book printer · also Johannes Gutenberg, Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden, Johann Gutenberg, Johann Gensfleisch zur Laden, Johannes Gutenburg, Henne Gutenburg
Born 1400 · Died 3 February 1468 · Q8958
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2026· 4 entries
EurekAlert!: The miniaturized laser system, developed with major contributions from researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
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2025· 3 entries
Wall Street Journal: ‘Johannes Gutenberg’ Review: Print the Legend
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Nature: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU)
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The Conversation: Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
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2021· 1 entry
9to5google: Google Doodle honors Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press
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2017· 1 entry
Mid Day: How Johannes Gutenberg invented the modern printing press
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2010· 1 entry
scmp.com: Johannes Gutenberg
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2001· 1 entry
The physicist Blaise Agüera y Arcas and Princeton librarian Paul Needham, used digital scans of a Papal bull in the Scheide Library, Princeton, to carefully compare the same letters (types) appearing in different parts o
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1999· 1 entry
The A&E Network ranked Gutenberg the No
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1997· 1 entry
Time Life picked Gutenberg's invention as the most important of the second millennium
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1952· 1 entry
The United States Postal Service issued a five hundredth anniversary stamp commemorating Johannes Gutenberg invention of the movable-type printing press
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1871· 1 entry
“Gutenberg, and the Art of Printing by Emily C. Pearson, 1871”
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1468· 10 entries
Died 1468-02-03.
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“L'autostrada informatica trasformerà drasticamente la nostra cultura, così come la stampa di Gutenberg trasformò il Medioevo. (Bill Gates)”
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“Il nazionalismo era ignoto nel mondo occidentale fin quando, nel Rinascimento, Gutenberg rese possibile vedere la madre lingua in veste uniforme. (Marshall McLuhan)”
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“Gutenberg, il vostro torchio tipografico è stato violato da questo libro diabolico! (Friedrich Kellner)”
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“E così l'affermazione "a mio figlio è venuto un tumore perché Adamo ha mangiato del frutto proibito" o "ad Amatrice è morta una mia amica perché Eva ha disobbedito" vale tanto quanto "oggi sul Corriere mi insultano perché Gutenberg ha inventato la stampa", oppure "sui social se la prendono con me perché Steve Jobs ha inventato l'iphone e Mark Zuckerberg Facebook". (Mauro Leonardi)”
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“Ett flöde av sanning ska flöda från den...Gutenberg om tryckpressen”
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“Attraversiamo una trasformazione paragonabile a quella vissuta dagli esseri umani quando Gutenberg ha inventato la stampa. Con la riproduzione meccanica della Bibbia è arrivata l'epoca della secolarizzazione del sapere e dell'automatizzazione della produzione. (Paul B. Preciado)”
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“Se Gutenberg fosse vivo, oggi, saprebbe riconoscere esattamente un libro e saprebbe come utilizzarlo, immediatamente. Soggetto anch'esso, come naturale, ai cambiamenti del tempo, il libro ha mantenuto una forma stabile per moltissimi anni. Ma nessuna tecnologia, nemmeno quella così elegante di un libro, dura per sempre. (Jeff Bezos)”
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“Per me, la mia concezione del cinema è che si tratta di una nuova stampa; è un'invenzione che ha quasi l'importanza dell'invenzione di Gutenberg. (Jean Renoir)”
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“Odio Gutenberg, ha inventato gli errori di stampa. (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)”
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1418· 1 entry
Studied at University of Erfurt (1392-1816) (1418).
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1400· 2 entries
Born 1400-00-00.
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Born 1400.
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