“In 15th-century Germany, Johannes Gutenberg developed a printing press, a machine that allowed for mass production of texts. It is considered by many to be one of the most significant technological advancements of the last millennium.
Though Gutenberg often receives credit as the inventor of the printing press,”
article written by ignorant moron ... printing presses were already the standard for mass reproduction ... Gutenberg’s revolutionary invention was the use of moveable type ...
You find that true about any technology. The Wright brothers built on scores of entrepreneurs, scientists and engineers before them.
Same with the telephone and telegraph, metallurgy, the steam engine, mass production, interchangeable parts, sewing machines, threshers, combines, reapers, safety razors, etc. We are taught in school that one person made that breakthrough invention when it was scores and hundreds of predecessors working in the same field over decades.