The Mysterious Medieval Inventor Who Changed The World | Machine That Made Us | Absolute History 

Hi Jeanne how are you doing?

@@stewartnelson5381 okay 👍 ķkķkķkoķķķkklk

I did too! Could you imagine the anticipation the very first time a pressed page was going to be revealed?

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It happened in China millennia earlier. The Renaissance came from the Ottoman Empire, surprised printing wasn’t introduced by them.

@@elizabethclaiborne6461 Moveable type was different in china. It’s true they invented it but it was not the global, earth shaping moment that the printing press was.

Farmers carrying through airport builds big forearms brah

but luggage wasn't quite as big

@@ah5721 Although old fashioned suitcases and trunks are quite heavy when empty.

Hard to get cool stuff done while too many folks are thinking of new ways to kill each. 💡 A printing press that kills your enemies? Damn! Propaganda has already been invented. (Me) farts and leaves room mysteriously saying “oooh oooh”.

Yeah but you try controlling one of those tiny wheels pieces of luggage when it decides not to co-operate!

It's from 2008...

Printing the Bible in any language other than Latin? Outrageous!

Let the prpoaganda begin :o)

Exactly what i was thinking!!!

Heidelberg proves this

My favourite modern music engravings are German

Heidelbergs can’t be beaten. You definitely need a lot of room for them, though. Their 5-color press is a beast! ♥️

I was born in the same town as Charles Darwin.......and live down the road from there in the birthplace of the British Industrial Revolution.

A City near me "Pforzheim" fell victim to the Single Most "successful" bombing Run in human History. 98% of structures were Destroyed and within 15 minutes a third of the Population was dead

mainz hat bekommen was es verdient hat. scheiß auf die altstadt..jedes Leben ist mehr wert als 1000 historischer Gebäude

Man erntet was man säht

Additionally, the terminology of "matrix" comes directly from moneying, along with the less-seen term 'patrix' for the punch. Yes, gender terms once again - live with it.

The Historian, if it's the one by Elizabeth Kostova, is just great! Thanks for reminding me. I had actual chills reading it...

@@Erkynar yes it's her novel. I love it very much. One of the best novel for the detail and research she did.

Is that the novel about Vlad the Impaler and the vampires? Really enjoyed that. Was so spooky.

@@jockellis yes.

I missed that 😝 They mentioned it earlier.

History is and always will be synthesized by humans, hence prejudice and bias somewhere.

It's from 2008.

@@Stuenestoppen2 thank you.

They didn’t include my Erotic Call of duty romance

@@wally9935 clearly they have zero taste!

Writing was only for the few and only the few were educated as a result. With limited input, there would be limited new ideas. Printing has had a much more vast impact on the world than hand writing. Think about what you just typed. Without the printing press, fonts would not exist, only writing. The internet would not exist. All of our knowledge and inventions are a direct result of Gutenberg.

@@VangoghsDoggo think about it…without writing, the printing press wouldn’t exist. I thought they should have included a connection to the invention of writing… it unlocked the possibility of all future complex new ideas… without writing, you cannot build upon the ideas of the past beyond a single person’s ability to remember everything.

I prefer holding the actual book. I don't like reading e books.

Many things were invented in China but as we already know, history is written by victors. In my opinion Gutenberg only rediscovered printing or was inspired by the Chinese invention.

Johannes Gutenberg did

You're not wrong. He was responsible for bringing it to the western world. Technically you could argue his was different as the ancient Chinese printing press dealt with syllables and sounds (as is appropriate for how Chinese is spelled) and Gutenberg's used individual letters (appropriate for European languages). But in the end, they were similar enough that basically yes, he gets all the credit for something invented previously elsewhere.

F the Commies

@@TheLion7777 Pretty sure the ancient Chinese weren’t communist. 🙄

The printing press existed in Europe before Guttenberg too. By far not as long as in China, already in Roman times. The invention of Guttenberg were the movable types. The large number of Chinese symbols prevented the same invention in China.

@@karstenschuhmann8334 …no, it didn’t. First of all, certain hanzi characters are used in multiple words as is. You can keep certain ones permanently for use in combination. There are a multitude of combinations of characters, and they learned to make new ones if needed. (I’m too lazy to look up more illustrious sources, but you also have Google: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi_Sheng) Secondly, even metal-set type was in use in Korea by 1377. Asia was *always* decades ahead of the West, which is why so much of Asia’s influence via the Silk Road is important to note. Pasta, ketchup, gunpowder, silks, tea, spices… all things that have somehow become “Western” were always initially Asian.

@@RedKresnik11 I know China was often centuries ahead of the rest of the world. They used hot zinc plating 300ad. It is incredibly. Bi Sheng invented a similar system to Gutenberg 500 years earlier, but it never became a success, due to the Chinese writing system. Gutenberg independently invented a way similar but way more successful technology.

@@karstenschuhmann8334 I feel like you don’t know how hanzi work… sure you have combination characters, but, again, they used certain characters in combination with other characters to create new words. But he DID print books, and that counts more for the “invention” claim. Same with the Korean metal type. It’s like saying China didn’t invent ketchup although it’s nothing like the current tomato-based sauce. Or because they didn’t create guns from gunpowder that they don’t deserve credit for it. Or just because he formed manufacturing assembly lines, Henry Ford gets all the credit for the development of cars in the 20th cars.

@@RedKresnik11 There is a big difference between an imitation and an independent invention.

What on earth are you on about