here in India, in 10th grade we have to study about this gutenberg printing press...and this is ACTUALLY very helpful video and it was very interesting to know...💛thanks for showing us this
A fantastic demonstration of a highly specialized skill. Those old master printers were real magicians in their time. The books, pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, and other products from their presses were the fount of culture in their communities. As a research scholar, I'm grateful for the printing press and the men and women who operated them. I certainly miss the days of hot-lead type.
The smell of melting lead in the old Linotype pots in the composing rooms of newspapers used to give me a slight high. Linotypes were an amazing invention and the compositors took pride in their work. Most of these machines would have been trashed with the advent of computers but there is an indented aesthetic about the old typefaces.
True, tho one might argue that a person in the modern era reminiscing about older metal type printing is like a person at the time when metal type was prevalent reminiscing about writing books by hand or a person at the time when books were handwritten reminiscing about people having good memory and passing information orally lol.
What nowadays seems like such a simple and obvious invention absolutely _revolutionized_ the spread of information back in the day. Without the printing press, the world we live in today would simply not exist. It makes you wonder what wonderful new ideas lie ahead!
Well, it was this, modern paper, the fairly limited Latin alphabet and a book as popular as the Bible all together. Really printing presses like this had been invented in China around 1000 A.D. and they were used sometimes, but the huge number of different characters, relative scarcity of material to print on and lack of a single written work as popular as the Bible meant that they never *really* took off until Gutenberg made his version. Plus making the "types" (the letters) was always a tough process, one of Gutenberg's big innovations was making them easier to produce.
@@colbyboucher6391 It was also the metal used to make the letters! They had to find an alloy that would stay even when it cooled so the letters would retain their form. There was a *lot* of hard work and technology that went into it.
As much effort as it looks like it takes just to print one page or one book with that printing press compared to today, it was nothing compared to how difficult it was before the printing press was invented. When first invented, the printing press was a groundbreaking invention because prior to the invention of the printing press, books had to be painstakingly copied word for word by hand by people called scribes. If a scribe made one mistake, they had to start over and do the whole page over again, and they had to go through the whole process every time they wanted to copy a book. After the invention of the printing press however, all one had to do was create one template for each page, but once templates were made for all pages, they could use those templates over and over again to make book after book.
I'm a professor and use this video in several of my classes about early print. Incredible resource! (But I always get a little bit sad when he fumbles for a second.)
But after that it is fast and easy to print thousands of copies within a short period of time which would take decades for a scribe to copy it letter by letter..
BTW, Gutenberg was using movable type by now; meaning a page was made up of hundreds of little letter put together like legos. Once the run for that page was complete they would create another one.
No they didn't. They just had to rearrange the letters after finishing printing hundreds of copies of the same page. Rearranging letters was actually easy and fast.
I actually find it rude how he just ignores questions and shushes grown ups as if they were little children. He could have just answered the question in the first place.
@@raipa111 Or those grown ups could patiently wait for such information to be given, because that is what the man is busy doing. As a museum employee/touring guide I'm sure that man has, over time, tailored and tweaked his routine to entertainingly provide all the relevant information in a structured fashion. Asking for information that is part of the routine anyway is an impatient disruption of that man's narative flow, and easily avoided by asking whatever question is left unanswered after the demonstration or tour. From experience I can tell you that most people seem to understand this.
@@karlnord1429 Well he never seemed to stop talking or take questions. And even though I agree with you, putting someone down like a schoolboy is weird and uncomfortable and at least equally as rude as talking over someone.
Thank you so much for recording this and sharing it. We won't have people around like him much longer, people with this knowledge. This will help future generations!
I work in a print museum in Ireland and we call the ink pads "Dabbers". Anyone who was good at applying the ink was known as a dab hand. Didn't know about the pins. Very interesting.
this is a really cool video, i would love to also be able to see some kind of reconstruction as to how these machines were used at peak performance by a team of skilled workers as i have to imagine they could crank it out pretty quickly
The man doing the demo was great, to the lady pulling the pring handle, how would you like doing that all day, LOL. Very first printing presses were a real labor of love.
Hey this is awesome, I was reading the book How to Get Ideas by Jack Foster and I learned that actually Gutenberg mixed between the coin press and the wine press to invent this. I've even mentioned it in a book review that I am doing soon for my channel, certainly going to link to that amazing video too
Thank you for publishing this demonstration video. However quaint it appears today, this kind of printing was the beginning of the information revolution in Western society. Good work!
My mom walked by when it was at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="125">2:05</a>....my door is closed...speakers on....Thanks. How did I get here anyway
I really appreciate you as you took some effort to record it and put on youtube...Studying it in book and seeing it being performed...The experience is different☺ ..Thank you so much 😃😄
This is amazing, I learned so much in history class but I never thought I would see it, Mr Quinter if you see this you should have taken us to this XD.
Thank you so much for this video, I was trying to figure out how it worked since I needed to know for a school project, I appreciate this as it gave me a good understanding.
The print is amazing and just show how this one invention catapulted humans ability to attain and share knowledge exponentionally compared to all the time before.
el desarrollo y ver como queda tan simetrico el trabajo realizado por gutenberg como revoluciono la forma de crear es algo asombroso como la creacion de la biblia de 42 lineas, el pensamiento que tenia era muy acertado de crear algo hermoso y perfecto mediante la imprenta en tiempo record
