Once upon a time, in the Land of Earth..........

Once upon a time, in the Land of Earth, the people published the GOOD NEWS of THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL of THE LORD JESUS CHRIST by word of mouth, hand written letters and tracts. And those publishers, who Loved the Lord, did their part gladly.

Fast forward to cicca 1450 AD, the time of Gutenberg and his invention of the MOVABLE TYPE PRINTING PRESS..

.Before Gutenberg, books were either copied out by hand on scrolls and paper, and even a small book could take months to complete, or printed from hand-carved wooden blocks, each block printing a whole page, a part of a page or even individual letters. But the wood work was extremely time-consuming and the carved letters or blocks were very fragile and the susceptibility of wood to ink gave such blocks a limited lifespan. Moreover, the hand-carved letters were different. Gutenberg is generally credited with the invention of practical movable type. He made metal moulds, by the use of dies, into which he could pour hot liquid metal, in order to produce separate letters as the same shape as those written by hand. These letters were similar, more readable, and more durable than wooden blocks. Such letters could be arranged and rearranged many times as the printer wished to create different pages from the same letters. Gutenberg also introduced the use of printing press to press the type against paper. For this he used a hand press used in his times by wine industry. Ink was rolled over the raised surfaces of the hand-set letters held within a wooden frame, and the frame was then pressed against the paper. The press enabled sharp impressions on both sides of a sheet of paper and many repetitions. After a page was printed, the type could be reused for printing other pages. Gutenberg introduced his invention around 1450 *****CREDIT TO http://www.juliantrubin.com/

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