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Johann Gutenberg

noun

German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468). Synonyms: Gutenberg, Johannes Gutenberg.

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... filled with men and women who lived that they might add their mite to the sum total of our accumulated treasures of knowledge and beauty and wisdom. In Germany, in the city of Mainz, Johann zum Gansefleisch, commonly known as Johann Gutenberg, had just invented a new method of copying books. He had studied the old woodcuts and had perfected a system by which individual letters of soft lead could be placed in such a way that they formed ...

— The Story of Mankind • Hendrik van Loon

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Words linked to "Johann Gutenberg" : printer, pressman