Next, in 1450, Gutenberg finally perfected his device and made his first wholly successful print, which happened to be a Latin book about making speeches. Things picked up spectacularly from there, ...

JOHANNES Gutenberg’s invention in the 1400s revolutionized the publishing industry. Google dedicated its Wednesday Doodle to mark his achievement, on April,14, 2021, the 21st anniversary of the ...

Certain inventions have dramatically transformed the way we live, communicate, and understand the world. Some groundbreaking ...

The greatest tools in history do more than solve common problems. They redefine and reshape humanity. The wheel provided us with motion, the printing press with freedom of thought, and the microchip ...

On the 547th death anniversary of German inventor Johannes Gutenberg, we look back at his contributions to the mechanisation of the printing process, which went on to create a revolution... Johannes ...

Newspapers today face challenges with competition from social media and technology. When printing began more than 600 years ago, Johannes Gutenberg could have never imagined the role his invention ...

We still speak of “turning a page,” still aspire to be “open books” and recite “chapter and verse,” but our pages are now webpages, our books are now e-books and audiobooks, and our chapters and ...

Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...

“The whole world admits unhesitatingly; and there can be no doubt about this, that Gutenberg's invention is the incomparably greatest event in the history of the world”—Mark Twain Recently an American ...

There is a legendary anecdote, perhaps apocryphal but probably not, that after a performance of “The Addams Family” on Broadway, Elaine Stritch visited Nathan Lane backstage and told the star, ...