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Printing Press Impact

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The Vast Impact/Consequences of the Printing Press on the Planet
Throughout the past there have been countless number of innovations, inventions, and discoveries that shaped the human world. One of these magnificent inventions was the Printing Press. A printing press is a machine for printing ink onto a substrate (print medium) such as paper or cloth. The device applies pressure to a substrate that rests on an inked surface made of movable type, then transferring the ink. Usually used for making texts, the invention and the spread of the printing press are widely considered as among the most influential events in human history, revolutionizing the way people look at the world they live in. Without it, we could still be hand writing all the books we have today. The Printing Press was created around the year 1440 by Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (aka Johann Gutenberg). He was a German blacksmith, …show more content…

According to portraits in Document 1, before the Printing Press was invented, people known as scribes had to write all the books. There would sometimes be more than a hundred scribes sitting in a room and hand writing a book while one person is reciting the words, and it would have taken a long time to make a single book. But after the printing press came to existence more books could be made, and made at a faster rate. This increased the amount of books available, thus letting more people read and spread knowledge. Document 2 shows the number of Printing Presses used escalating from the year 1471 to 1500. More availability of Printing Presses contributed more books to the world, increasing the number of people who read books and spreading new knowledge all over Europe. So this is how the spread of knowledge is one of the consequences brought forth by the Printing Press as it caused more books to be made which in turn spread more knowledge all over the

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