The 12 Biggest Breakthroughs in Communication Technology

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1 The Printing Press Spreads Knowledge and Ideas People need and like to communicate with each other Over the years this has led to many amazing inventions One of the first was the printing press Before the middle of the 1400s there was no mechanical printing Everything was done by hand It took a long time to make a book There weren’t many books And the books that did exist were very expensive At first that didn’t matter much Very few people could read In 1450 only about seven percent of people in Germany could read But the printing press changed all that The first person to successfully use a printing press was Johannes Gutenberg He was a stonecutter and goldsmith in Gutenberg examines the first sheets printed on his press 44