This essay is about the life if Johannes Guttenberg.
- Date: September 14, 2003
- Level: High School, 10th grade
- Grade: A+
- Length: 5 pages (1282 words)
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johannes gutenberg, movable type, printing press, accomplishments, little imagination, german printer, ...reading material, 15th century, molds, invention, pioneer, newspapers, magazines
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Johannes Gutenberg
Imagine a world without books, magazines, or newspapers. Until the 15th Century people had very little imagination. Few people even knew how to read or write because there was no particular need to know how to do either of these things, and those who did had little reading material to choose from at all. Gutenberg is referred to as the father of modern printing because of his accomplishments in the printing press. In this paper I will be talking about Johannes Gutenberg's life, and how he came to set up movable type and a version of the printing press. I will be writing about the trials, accomplishments, and effects his invention had on the ...

... books as quickly as the printing press that Gutenberg had invented.
If Gutenberg had not achieved his goals with the printing press, the world today would be very different. Education would be less involved, and it would also be less informative as it is now. There would be fewer opportunities for people to learn and to expand their minds by reading literature or other valuable things.
I believe that the invention of the printing press is one of the greatest inventions up to this day. If a new form of printing had not been invented, people would not know as much as they do now about the history of our world. People would 
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14 September, 2003 01:59:24
I think this is the best essay i've ever read! lol