FILE - Two volumes of the over 500-year-old Gutenberg Bible are pictured in New York in April 1978. Johannes Gutenberg planned on printing 150 Bibles, but increasing demand motivated him to produce 30 ...

A Gutenberg Bible owned by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California, has enjoyed some exciting exploits in its 600-year history. It’s been owned by Silesian nobles, traded by a Scottish ...

Discover the true inventor of the printing press, from its wooden block origins in China to Johannes Gutenberg's mechanical ...

Two sets of sacred documents — the Gutenburg Bible and the Spring and Autumn Annals of Confucius — chronicle two religious traditions separated by cultures and entire continents. We might not know of ...

This post is in partnership with the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. A version of the article below was originally published on the Ransom Center’s Cultural Compass blog.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Johannes Gutenberg may have invented modern printing, but Michael Hart ...

In 1439, Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the printing press with movable type ushered in a new era of mass communication, democratizing access to information and revolutionizing the spread of ideas.