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Johannes Gutenberg

A Marvelous Man Makes an Amazing Machine

The book you are about to read would not be here if not for Johannes Gutenberg. It’s true! When Johannes was a boy, the only way to put words on paper was by hand. Surrounded by guilds and expert craftsmen, Johannes’ gifted hands worked away at many skills, leading to the invention that would change the world: the printing press.

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It happened about six hundred years ago in Mainz, Germany.

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