Monday, April 15, 2013

The Printing Press: Learning to Make a Difference


Printing Press
Invented in the early 1450s
In Italy
By Johannes Gutenberg
Medium: Metal and Ink

           I will start in the early 1450s with the Printing Press invented in Italy by Johannes Gutenberg. This was a time of wealth for Italy and the people wanted this to continue. To do that, they wanted to be able to teach their children to conduct businesses and to read other educational literature. This inspired Johannes Gutenberg to invent the Printing Press so that textbooks could be made and distributed to those that wanted to educate themselves. However, this not only was used for textbooks but later for all sorts of literary works.
           Johannes Gutenberg and his invention shows the characteristic of learning of recognizing what would make a big difference in society by observing and also learning how to accomplish it. Not only that, this invention helped start the Renaissance and encouraged the distribution of many books with different types of information which resulted in a lot of learning in Italy and around the world.


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