The first ever book to be produced in Europe by Johannes Gutenberg. Gutenberg was born around 1398 and died on 3rf February, 1468. He was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer and publisher. Gutenberg created the art of modern book printing. He started the Printing Revolution and this is regarded as the most important event of the modern period, a chance to communicate. The methods used for the printing and binding of books continued fundamentally unchanged from the 15th century into the early years of the 20th century. While there was more mechanization, Gutenberg would have had no difficulty in understanding the new and improved printers of the 1900's.
Gutenberg's invention was the use of movable metal types, assembled into words, lines, and pages and then printed by letterpress. In letterpress printing ink is spread onto the tops of raised metal type, and is transferred onto a peice of paper. This piece of paper was then pressed against the type. Between 1450 and 1455, Gutenberg printed several texts, the earliest form of a published book in Europe.
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