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What Did Gutenberg Invent? - XA001/AIP2/04For 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…
Publication Year: 2001
Length: 30mins
ISBN: 9780749233396