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Gu·ten·berg

 (go͞ot′n-bûrg′), Johann or Johannes 1400?-1468?
German printer whose Bible (c. 1455), produced by means of movable type, transformed European society by demonstrating the advantages of the printed word in making information available to large numbers of people.
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Gutenberg

(ˈɡuːtənˌbɜːɡ; German ˈɡuːtənbɛrk)
n
(Biography) Johann (joˈhan), original name Johannes Gensfleisch. ?1398–1468, German printer; inventor of printing by movable type
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Gu•ten•berg

(ˈgut nˌbɜrg)

n.
Johannes, (Johann Gensfleisch), c1400–68, German printer: first to print with movable type.
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It was the terror and dazzled amazement of the men of the sanctuary, in the presence of the luminous press of Gutenberg. It was the pulpit and the manuscript taking the alarm at the printed word: something similar to the stupor of a sparrow which should behold the angel Legion unfold his six million wings.
Thus, down to the time of Gutenberg, architecture is the principal writing, the universal writing.
Gutenberg's letters of lead are about to supersede Orpheus's letters of stone.
Some compiler of statistics has calculated, that if all the volumes which have issued from the press since Gutenberg's day were to be piled one upon another, they would fill the space between the earth and the moon; but it is not that sort of grandeur of which we wished to speak.
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Piccolomini was, of course, discussing the work of the 'vir mirabilis' [admirable man], Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg, and his printed Bible, produced using moveable metal type, which was to become a landmark of European culture.
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As most of us know, Johannes Gutenberg is responsible for introducing the metal movable-type printing press and innovations for casting the type.
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New York, NY, December 02, 2017 --(PR.com)-- Gutenberg, an award-winning global integrated digital marketing communications firm, today announced the launch of its office in Singapore.
Gutenberg Launches Singapore Office to Tap Into ASEAN Market for Digital Marketing

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