Book Description
A history of the modern printing industry, including how paper and ink are made, looking particularly at the printing press invented by Gutenberg around 1450 but also at its precursors.
Author : Bruce Koscielniak
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0618263519
A history of the modern printing industry, including how paper and ink are made, looking particularly at the printing press invented by Gutenberg around 1450 but also at its precursors.
Author : Fran Rees
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756509897
Johannes Gutenberg, a man of the Renaissance, developed a printing press and transformed the world of books.
Author : Joann Johansen Burch
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822589087
Although he is credited with changing history through his invention of printing, Johann Gutenberg remains mysterious. In Fine Print, author Joann Johansen Burch pieces together Gutenberg's amazing story. When Johann was a child in the early 1400s, books were rare and sometimes very expensive. Each book had to be copied by hand, letter by letter. Gutenberg loved to read, and he often grew impatient waiting for the time-consuming bookmaking process to be completed. Young Gutenberg dreamed of finding a better way to make books. From his childhood in strife-torn Mainz through the many years of setbacks and bankruptcies, Gutenberg persevered in his belief that books could be made quickly and inexpensively. This is the story of the man who invented movable type and the printing press and gave the world the gift of books.
Author : Diana Childress
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761340246
Can one invention really change the world? Before the mid-fifteenth century, books were printed by hand, making them rare and expensive. Reading and learning remained a privilege of the wealthy—until Johannes Gutenberg developed a machine called the printing press. Gutenberg, a German metalworker, began in the 1440s by making movable type—small metal letters that were arranged to form words and sentences, replacing handwritten letters. Movable type fit into frames on the printing press, and the press then produced many copies of the same page. As movable type and the printing press made book production much faster and less expensive, reading material of all kinds became available to a far wider audience. In Gutenberg’s time, Europe was already on the brink of a new age—an explosion of world exploration, scientific discoveries, and political and religious changes. Gutenberg’s printing press helped propel Europe into the modern era, and his legacy remains in the thousands of books and newspapers printed each year to keep us informed, entertained, and connected. Indeed, Gutenberg’s development of the printing press became one of history’s pivotal moments.
Author : Sue Vander Hook
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 160453916X
This title examines the remarkable life of Johannes Gutenberg and his innovation of the printing press. Readers will learn about Gutenberg's background and education, as well as his creation of the Gutenberg Bible for the Catholic Church. Color photos, detailed maps, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Publishing Pioneers is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
Author : Blake Morrison
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 2010-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385672187
Around 1400, in the city of Mainz, a man was born whose heretical invention was to change history. Some sixty years later he died — robbed of his business, his printing presses, and, so he thought, his immortality. In his dazzling first novel, Morrison gives us Gutenberg’s “testament” — his justification, dictated to one of the young scribes his invention will soon put out of work. Thus Morrison conjures up the haunting figure of Gutenberg himself: a man who gambled everything — money, honour, friendship and a woman’s love — on the greatest invention of the last millennium.
Author : Kay Melchisedech Olson
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736864822
In graphic novel format, tells the story of Johann Gutenberg and the invention of the printing press.
Author : Avery Elizabeth Hurt
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1502641151
Upon its invention in the mid-1400s, the printing press instantly became a revolutionary device. It introduced literacy to the masses and led Europe out of the Middle Ages. This book explores the press' exciting history, the social and political conditions in place at the time Johannes Gutenberg invented it, and the changes the invention wrought afterward. It traces the evolution of moveable type and information dissemination up to modern electronic communications technology, examining the positive and negative effects of these developments, both in the past and on democracy and humankind today. This book will give readers a new appreciation for the written word, whether it is printed on paper or displayed on a screen.
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,32 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Readers
ISBN :
Author : Victor Scholderer
Publisher : London : British Museum
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468
ISBN :