What Did Gutenberg Invent?

Synopsis: For the last 550 years, it has been believed the Johannes Gutenberg was the inventor of movable type. This programme travels to Gutenberg’s hometown of Maintz in Germany to discover how Gutenberg lived and worked and to uncover the amazing range of industrial processes that he would have had to invent. But did he really invent movable type? Computer aided research at the Smithsonian (Washington, USA) suggests that Gutenberg may not quite have achieved what we believe he did...
Series: Renaissance Secrets, Series 2
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2002
Year of production: 2001
Subjects: History; Technology
Keywords: history of the 15th century; inventions; printing; Renaissance; Gutenberg, Johann

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