Johan Gutenberg

Commonly considered the inventor Johann Gutenberg printing press. What he actually did was to develop the first method using a moving print and printing in a form such that various kinds of written material can be printed quickly and precisely.
There was no finding that jumped out of a person's thoughts, not even the printing press. Seals and seal spots that the principle of the process similar to block printing was known in China for centuries before Gutenberg was born, and some evidence suggests that in the year 868 AD a printed book was discovered in China. A similar process is known in Europe before Gutenberg.Print allows printing blocks many copies of certain books. This process has one big disadvantage: because a new and complete set of wood or metal cukilan should be made to a book, by itself it is not practical to print a wide variety of books.
Often called the most important contribution was the invention of Gutenberg's print area that can move. In this case the same one already discovered in China around the mid-11th century AD by a man named Pi Sheng. The letters of the original print made from a kind of land that can not last long. Meanwhile, some Chinese and Korean people have a series of improvements and work well before Gutenberg. Korean People using metal block printing, and the Korean government helped a smelter to produce printed in the early 15th century AD Apart from all this, is also wrong to think of Pi Sheng had a special influence. At the first level, Europeans do not learn to print letters to move from China but on his own creation. Second, print by print move has not been used in general in China itself until recently have modern printing procedures when they learned from the West.
There are four essential components of modern way of printing. First, print the move, following some adjustment procedures and the laying of letters established. Second, the printing press itself. Third, matching ink to produce prints. Fourth, materials such as paper to print it. Paper has been discovered in China long before the printing press by Ts'ai Lun and its use is widespread in Europe before the time of Gutenberg. That is the only element of the Gutenberg printing process that is ready to be. Although others have done all kinds of work on each component, but Gutenberg had successfully done various improvements. For example, he developed a metal alloy for the block letter; poured the liquid metal to block print correctly and accurately; oil printing inks and tools necessary pressure to print.

However, Gutenberg's contribution as a whole mind is greater than anyone else in terms of improvement of the printing press. Its importance lies in its success mainly combines all the elements of the printing press into a system of effective and productive. Therefore printing press, unlike other inventions before, is a process of large-scale production of the major. A gun by itself far more effective than a bow and arrow. A book can not print a lot different than a book of handwriting. Excess printing thus lies in terms of large-magnitude production. What has been developed by Gutenberg was not for a device or a discovery of reason, and not just a series of improvements, but a complete production process.
Biographical Treasury Gutenberg us about yourself so rare, we only know he was born in Germany around 1400 AD in the city of Mainz. Contribution to the art of printing occurred in mid-century and terbagusnya work - what is called the Gospel Gutenberg - printed in Mainz around 1454 AD Strangely, Gutenberg's name was never mentioned in any book, nor in the Gospel of Gutenberg, although he himself clearly printed by means of discovery.
Gutenberg did not appear to be an entrepreneur; he really had no desire to money from the invention. He is often involved with the court charges resulting in the need for him to pay a ransom in the form of equipment supplies to his friend named Johann Fust. Gutenberg died in 1468 in the city of Mainz.

One of the Gutenberg influence in world history can be profitable if we associate with the development in China and Europe in the next period. At the time of Gutenberg was born, the two regions were almost the same advance. But after Gutenberg invented the printing of Europe quickly dashed forward, while China - which still uses the block print - developed a bit slow.Maybe too much if we say the development of printing was the only factor causing differences in the level of progress, but the findings clearly have important meaning that can not be excluded.
It is also important to note if only three people in this book list live in the five centuries before Gutenberg, while sixty-seven live in the five centuries after Gutenberg's death. This shows how great the Gutenberg invention means - even can be called an important discovery - in relation to the withdrawal of the trigger advances the revolution of modern times.