1450 & All That
Johannes Gutenberg, goldsmith of Mainz, put metal letters in a wooden press adapted from the wine-makers of the Rhine. With it he changed the course of human history. Nearly six centuries later, the stories that matter most to millions are told from the stands each weekend — and too often they vanish into a camera roll. We think they deserve the press.
A new way of doing business
Gutenberg's movable type turned the making of books from a scribe's craft into an industry.
Cheaper, faster books
What once took a monk a year could be pressed in days, at a fraction of the cost.
Ideas spread further
Texts, ideas and arguments crossed borders faster than ever before — and the world was never the same.