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jun 1, 1440 - Printing Press

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The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg. Gutenberg was a goldsmith by profession, developed a printing system, by adapting existing technologies to printing purposes, as well as making inventions of his own

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jun 1, 1440
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~ 586 years ago