On February 3, 1468 he died Johannes Gutenbergconsidered the inventor and father of the printing press of mobile types that meant a real revolution in the fifteenth century, among other things for the dissemination of new ideas, as well as a little more democratic access to knowledge.
Johannes Gutenberg, born as Johannes Gensfleisch Zur Laden In the city of Mainz, currently Germany, at the beginning of the fifteenth century, would change the method of disseminating the works written in its goldsmith workshop in the then Holy Germanic Roman Empire, and whose origin had special relevance in the invention of the printing press.
How Gutenberg used the wine press to invent the printing press
In the fifteenth century, when the birth of the mobile type printing took place, the dissemination of written works took place by copies by hand by monks and friars, as well as with the woodcutwhich used wooden tablets and generated wear that prevented many copies from being made.
In this context, Gutenberg raised wooden molds for each of the letters of the Latin alphabet, which he filled with iron, to then pose them on a print plate that was an adaptation of an old grape press, and that would be the germ of The mobile type printing.
It is considered that Johannes Gutenberg was a wine lover, and that, due to direct contact with the wine industry, being one of the main enclaves of this crop in the Germanic empire the city of Mainzwas based on the press to perform this drink to change the printing methods with its revolutionary invention.
From the clay to the mobile type printing of Gutenberg
In fact, the change it made to find the mobile type printing based on the wine press was key to the previous methods that existed, not only medieval xylography, but also when the Chinese printed with porcelain types on paper on paper rice or the Romans did it on clay tablets.
Despite being considered ‘millennium man’ by Sunday Times And one of the most relevant people in history, Gutenberg could not live to realize the influence and success of his invention, because he died in 1468 with economic problems, having exhausted the credit they had granted him Johann Fust and Peter Schöfferthat would end his work.
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