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One of the reasons I chose the printing press as my favorite invention is because I love to read, and without books, I wouldn't be as smart, or be the person i am now.

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Without a way to mass produce books, it might not be an art anymore, just a forgotten failure. we wouldn't have writes like Stephen King, or Rick Riordian. And what would a world without books be?

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Without printing presses, we wouldn't have commercially mass produced and widely available books. And that, in my opinion would be a tragedy.

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The medieval printing press was similar to a wine press. It was a giant slate with a handle that would press the slate onto the paper.

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The reason the printing press was invented was to cut the cost and multiply the output of books.

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In 1452 Johannes Gutenberg started the "bible project" and started printing "Gutenberg" bibles on his press

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Before the "modern" printing press paper was printed by " block printing", inking and carving wooden blocks, then pressing them onto paper.

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The first printing press was supposedly created by Johannes Gutenberg in 1439

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If we hadn't ever invented printing presses, books might have gone out of style and information would have had to been transferred by word,by memory, or some other way. In my mind, there are times for that, but sometimes books are the most efficient way to share knowledge.

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The printing press was an awesome invention because people could now mass produce books and spread ideas via book.