Gutenberg
Americannoun
noun
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It is no coincidence that humanity shot forward when Gutenberg invented his printing press.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Then Gutenberg came along with a press and Black was out of work.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
There are many older works that are worth reading, of course, and Shakespeare, Ulysses, Anna Karenina, Frankenstein, and Mrs Dalloway can all be found on Project Gutenberg.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2024
Now, by using past climate information from annually resolved tree rings over two millennia, scientists from the University of Cambridge and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have shown how exceptional the summer of 2023 was.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2024
They were Charles Richter and Beno Gutenberg, though for reasons that have nothing to do with fairness the scale became known almost at once as Richter’s alone.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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