Johann Gutenberg

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (circa 1398 – 3 Februar, 1468), a German metal-warker an inventor that's weel-kent for his contreibutions ti the technology o prentin in the 1450s, sic as a type metal alloy an ile-based inks, a mould for castin type accurate, an a new kind o prentin press foondit on presses uised in wine-makkin. Tradeition credits him wi inventin muivable type in Europe, a betterment o the block prentin uised there afore. By jyning thir elements intil a production seistem, he stairtit the swith prentin o written materials an an information explosion in Renaissance Europe.

There's monie statues o Gutenberg in Germany, ane o the mair kenspeckle bein a wark bi Thorvaldsen, in Mainz, that is hame tae the Gutenberg Museum forby.

The Gutenberg Galaxy an Project Gutenberg commemorates Gutenberg's name.

Sib airticles

• Prentin
• Typographie
• Incunabulum
• Francysk Skaryna
• William Caxton
• World Almanac's Ten Most Influential People of the Second Millennium

Fremmit airtins

• English Hamepage o the Gutenberg-Museum Mainz / Germany
• Life and work of Johannes Gutenberg
• BL.uk Archived 2005-03-06 at the Wayback Machine - 'Diamond Sutra' (warld’s auldest survivin full dated printed beuk, circa AD 868)
• Silk-Road.com - 'Printing' (historical owerview o printin)
• UTexas.edu Archived 2008-07-25 at the Wayback Machine - 'The Digital Gutenberg Project' (the Gutenberg Bible in 1,300 digital eimages, ilka page o the Varsity o Texas copy)
• HistoireetGeographie.free.fr Archived 2005-10-14 at the Wayback Machine - 'Biographie de Johannes Gutenberg, inventeur de l'Imprimerie' (a French biography of Gutenberg)