2. Press for Printing The printing press, a revolutionary invention by Johannes Gutenberg in 1440 CE, had a profound impact on the spread of knowledge, surpassing any other technology before the ...

The printing press allowed literacy to spread and thinkers to share ideas and, thus, invent more things. Modern inventions tend more toward improving than transforming: an app that connects the ...

This was sometimes a problem: The invention of the printing press meant that news could be duplicated and shared with lots of people at once. We still get news from traditional media sources ...