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Gutenberg's Printing Press

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Works dated 1430–1450

Made woodcuts and engravings commercially viable as the first true mass reproduction of images, preceding photography by 400 years and enabling Renaissance ideas to spread across Europe at scale.

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Gutenberg's Printing Press (1440) · Ellsworth