Why Was The Printing Press Important

Johann Gutenberg’s printing press is one of the most influential inventions ever created. Gutenberg was a goldsmith/shopkeeper who invented what is known as the printing press. He completed the printing press by the 1452, when he began printing 200 copies of the Bible. He then sold those Bibles at the 1455 Frankfurt book fair. He made it because he wanted money from it. He made the printing press by combining ideas from the wine press and woodcuts, which were popular in China. He also created a recipe for an ink that is still commonly used today. The printing press jump started the Renaissance. Before it, there were inklings of the revolution, but most people were still not literate. The printing press cut the price to make books and it cut the time to make them. This meant that books could now be easily made, and the prices dropped to buy a book, making books more easily available. This urged people to learn to read and write, because they could now buy things to read. With more people able to read and write, news got around quicker, people were better informed, ideas were more easily spread. The printing press was incredibly influential on history, it’s effects still trickling down into today’s events, though it’s not the only amazingly influential invention, the invention of paper was also a history-altering invention.
Paper was invented in China, and archeologists estimate that it was created around 100 BC. Despite that, the first official mention of paper is about 200 years later, credited to a man called Ts’ai Lun, who was a member of the Imperial Court. Regardless of when it was created, it was still incredibly revolutionary. Paper was first made from the bark of trees, remnants of hemp, fishing nets, and cloth. Paper was more inexpensive than parchment or papyrus. This made books slightly more inexpensive, and positively impacted the course of