eero Blog – November 6, 2017
In the 1400s, a man named Johannes Gutenberg, a resident of the German city of Mainz, invented a machine to quickly reproduce written materials, using metal stamps to transfer ink to paper in a single pressing. This innovation, the printing press, marked the start of what has become known as the Printing Revolution, the first step down the path towards the age of Mass Information in which we now live.
Source: The history of eBooks