What Was the Printing Press? AP Euro Bit by Bit #5 1440 AD

Johannas Gutenburg while in his father's workshop as a six year old boy knocked a carved block with his name on it into ink. He quickly picked it up and placed it on the table where it fell from, but after moving the block once it dried he noticed the ink bearing his name where the ink dried. This experience was the seed upon which he would one day invent moveable text for the printing press that would revolutionize the world.