PRINTING FROM MOVABLE TYPE (first printing book)

Hi friends, Me K.R.Ansari(Historical History).

 K.R.Ansari(Historical History).

Now my dear friends before getting let I want to share with you something new which I recently collect from revised history; that is about "First Printing Book"
         
    In 1450 Johann Gutenberg, a craftsman and metalworker from Mainz in Germany, took out a loan from financier. He had been experimenting with ways of printing from movable type, using his knowledge of metalworking to produce a method of casting metal type in quantity by means of a hand mold. He needed funds to develop further tools and equipment,including a wooden screw press, oil based printing links, and paper that could take an impression. With the printing press he created from all these elements he was able to start work on his masterpiece, the Gutenberg Great Bible, the printing of which was completed not later than 1455.
      Gutenberg Bible(also known as the forty-two line Bible, because each page had forty-two lines of text) is commonly held to be the first printed book in Europe and marked the beginning of the mass production of books. It probably took a year to produce the first printing of 180 copies of 1,282 pages each. Gutenberg soon had many imitators, and printing press were set up in city after city to produce Bibles, encyclopedias, theological works, histories, and romances to feed an ever-growing appetite for the printed word.
       The invention of movable type has been likened to the birth of the internet. It was the technological breakthrough that powered the dissemination of ideas during the Renaissance and the humanist explosion of learning of the early sixteenth century. In 1999, Time magazine named the Gutenberg printing press the most important invention of the millennium.