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Gutenberg

American  
[goot-n-burg, goot-n-berk] / ˈgut nˌbɜrg, ˈgut nˌbɛrk /

noun

  1. Johannes Johann Gensfleisch, c1400–68, German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.


Gutenberg British  
/ ˈɡuːtənbɛrk, ˈɡuːtənˌbɜːɡ /

noun

  1. Johann (joˈhan), original name Johannes Gensfleisch. ?1398–1468, German printer; inventor of printing by movable type

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The Gutenberg Bible, with all its cascading social effects, would come later.

From The Wall Street Journal

Then Gutenberg came along with a press and Black was out of work.

From Barron's

Then Gutenberg came along with a press and Black was out of work.

From Barron's

Then Gutenberg came along with a press and Black was out of work.

From Barron's

Béchard offers a very long historical perspective of this phenomenon, starting with Gutenberg, whose invention of movable type — “the ChatGPT of the 1450s,” he asserts — ushered in “the mass production of cheap printed material.”

From Los Angeles Times