Printing Press by Fred Johnston https://padlet.com/fredjo/printingpress Gutenburg´s Finest Contribution to Mankind en-us 2016-08-29 13:21:53 UTC 2025-12-07 16:20:36 UTC hello@padlet.com Life before the Printing Press fredjo https://padlet.com/fredjo/printingpress/wish/120290795 Before the printing press was invented, any writings and drawings had to be completed painstakingly by hand. It wasn’t just anyone who was allowed to do this. Such work was usually reserved for scribes who lived and worked in monasteries. In the Middle Ages, books were usually only owned by monasteries, educational institutions or extremely rich people. Most books were religious in nature - a sign of the times.]]> 2016-08-29 13:24:27 UTC https://padlet.com/fredjo/printingpress/wish/120290795 Johan Gutenburg fredjo https://padlet.com/fredjo/printingpress/wish/120291389 2016-08-29 13:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/fredjo/printingpress/wish/120291389 How the Printing Press works fredjo https://padlet.com/fredjo/printingpress/wish/120292197 During the 1300s to 1400s, people had developed a very basic form of printing. It involved letters or images cut on blocks of wood. The block would be dipped in ink and then stamped onto paper.

Gutenberg realized that if he could use cut blocks within a machine, he could make the printing process a lot faster. Instead of using wood blocks, he used metal instead. This was known as a "movable type machine," since the metal block letters could be moved around to create new words and sentences, and lasted longer than wood.  ]]> 2016-08-29 13:29:05 UTC https://padlet.com/fredjo/printingpress/wish/120292197 Effect of the Printing Press fredjo https://padlet.com/fredjo/printingpress/wish/120292695 The printing press allowed a greater population to have access to more books for a much cheaper price. By 1500, the printing presses throughout Western Europe had produced more than twenty million copies.

The printing press also helped to spread radical ideas of the Renaissance.  Books published by Martin Luther and John Calvin in the 1520s and 1530s spread the ideas of the Protestant Reformation, while Copernicus published his theory on heliocentric solar system in 1543.  The Church felt threatened by these actions.]]> 2016-08-29 13:30:47 UTC https://padlet.com/fredjo/printingpress/wish/120292695 How the Printing Press works fredjo https://padlet.com/fredjo/printingpress/wish/120297219 Short video on how the Printing Press works]]> 2016-08-29 13:46:14 UTC https://padlet.com/fredjo/printingpress/wish/120297219