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  • Essay / What was the most important consequence of printing...

    “In the fall of 1999, Arts & Entertainment Television aired a three-hour series called “Millennium Biography.” The show had the 100 most influential people of the last 1000 years, and number one on the list was Johannes Gutenberg. This German artisan revolutionized the world in the 1450s by inventing the printing press" (Background Essay). The most important consequence of printing was to change the lives of millions of people, we learn about it by reading books , magazines, novels and it became widespread because everyone started using it pretty quickly To begin with, Johannes Gutenberg was born in 1395, in Mainz, Germany. He began experimenting with printing. in 1438. He gained support in 1450 from financier Johann Fust, whose impatience and other factors led to Gutenberg's loss of his establishment to Fust in 1455. The masterpiece. by Gutenberg, and the first book ever printed in movable type, is the "Forty-two Lines" Bible, completed no later than 1455" (http://www.biography.com)". the printing press is that it has changed...