Look to your right or left! Your eye will certainly fall on a piece of paper with some printed words or pictures lying on the floor or placed on your desk, or even on the back of your phone or computer from which you are reading this.
Now close your eyes and come with me on a short journey through the pages of history to stop at the first station where ideas began to be transferred to paper to reach us and gave us the opportunity to pass them on to others after that.
City (Mainz) _ Germany 1456 AD:
John Gutenberg stands in his house, smiling, and in front of him is a table with pieces of lead shaped into Latin letters. He chose lead because of its availability and cheapness, and it melts at a relatively low temperature. So (lead is the solution).
After some time and several experiments carried out by Gutenberg, he discovers that lead is susceptible to rust. Which prompts him to add the metal (tin) to it, which does not rust…so (lead and tin alloy is the solution).
Before Gutenberg discovered that this binary alloy expands with heat and contracts with cold, which prompted him to add antimony, which expands with cold and contracts with heat. In order to maintain the natural dimensions of the letters without shrinkage or expansion.
In fact, the solution was the ternary alloy (lead, tin, and antimony).
With this solution, Gutenberg printed the Bible over a period of six years, making it (the first printed book in history).
Therefore, Johann Gutenberg considers:
– The owner of the idea of the first printing machine in history, who was inspired by the grape press that was commonly used to make wine.
– The inventor of the first printing ink in history.
From there to the rest of Germany, and with the migration of the population, his idea moved to all parts of Europe, such as Switzerland, France, Italy, and the Netherlands, and even crossed the Atlantic Ocean to reach America.
What about the Arab world that feared the idea of printing?! Follow us to see how the Arab world fought the idea of printing from its infancy
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