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By Robert Wilde, About.com Guide to European History since 2001

Gutenberg invented the printing press. Didn't he?

Saturday October 30, 2004
An Italian researcher, currently being roundly mocked by his peers, is claiming that Johannes Gutenberg didn't invent the process of printing with moveable type after all; instead he used the old method of large wooden stamps. The researcher intends to prove his theory with a demonstration but, as this article explains, he may not have many serious witnesses...

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July 31, 2006 at 8:26 pm
(1) V says:

In school I was taught that Gutenberg took the ideas from the Chinese.

February 7, 2008 at 7:51 pm
(2) Stephanie says:

OMG..all i want to find is an Agrican American who had part in inventing the printing press!!!!!!

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