It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams the most abundant and most marvellous liquor that has ever flowed to relieve the thirst of men.
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Johannes Gutenberg
Born around 1400 in Mainz, in the Holy Roman Empire, Johannes Gutenberg was a goldsmith and printer who combined movable metal type, oil-based ink, and a wooden press into the system that launched Europe's printing revolution. His Gutenberg Bible, completed circa 1455, demonstrated mass-produced books of manuscript quality and laid the groundwork for the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution.
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