Johannes Gutenberg: The Metal Movable-type Printing Press | Heroes of Progress | Ep. 14 — Transcript
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- 0:00johannes gutenberg was born sometime
- 0:02between 1394
- 0:04and 1404 in the city of maine's in the
- 0:07holy roman empire to a wealthy merchant
- 0:09family
- 0:10in 1411 an uprising against the local
- 0:13patrician class
- 0:14forced the gutenbergs to leave maine's
- 0:16and gutenberg worked as a goldsmith
- 0:18in strasbourg france in 1439
- 0:21gutenberg encountered financial problems
- 0:24unable to placate his investors
- 0:26gutenberg is said to have shared a
- 0:28secret with them
- 0:30a year later he declared that he had
- 0:32perfected the art of printing
- 0:33unveiling a design for a printing press
- 0:35with metal movable type
- 0:39with a capital investment from a wealthy
- 0:41lender named johan fuss
- 0:43gutenberg built two operating printing
- 0:45presses in 1450
- 0:47one for commercial text and the other
- 0:49for printing the gutenberg bible
- 0:52however in 1455 bust
- 0:55sued gutenberg for misallocating his
- 0:57investment
- 0:58bus took control of the printing
- 0:59workshop and effectively bankrupted
- 1:01gutenberg
- 1:02undeterred gutenberg opened a small
- 1:04printing shop in bavaria
- 1:06to continue printing bibles and he was
- 1:08named a gentleman of the court by the
- 1:10archbishop of maine's
- 1:12gutenberg's groundbreaking innovation
- 1:14quickly spread throughout europe
- 1:15literacy rates throughout the continent
- 1:17soared medical scientific and technical
- 1:20knowledge proliferated
- 1:21and philosophical religious and
- 1:23political treaties abounded
- 1:26this deluge of printing material
- 1:28weakened the centuries-long economic
- 1:30and social control of the guilds and
- 1:32nobility
- 1:33fueling the later part of the
- 1:35renaissance the protestant reformation
- 1:37and the scientific revolution it is for
- 1:41those reasons
- 1:41that johannes gutenberg is our 14th hero
- 1:45of progress
- 1:54[Music]
- 2:00you
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