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To: kosciusko51

Don’t meant to knit pick but, in the interest of precision, Gutenburg did not invent the printing press, although his was one of the earliest. His invention of movable type, which supplanted wood block printing, started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important event of the modern period.


15 posted on 12/04/2010 7:29:52 AM PST by luvbach1 (Stop Barry now. He can't help himself.)
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To: luvbach1

Not to “nit-pick” either, but I listed several transformative items, and did not list necessarily “firsts”. Movable type and the Gutenburg Bible lead a revolutionary change in the modern world.


19 posted on 12/04/2010 7:37:08 AM PST by kosciusko51
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