The Printing Press

One of the greatest inventions of it's time was the printing press. The printing press was a huge invention because it made copying or printing a book take way less time than before, which had to be done by hand. With this invention, more people were able to find books, so they were able to learn to read. The printing press happened because of innovation. Johannes Gutenberg first made the printing press around 1440. He decided that something had to be done about how long it takes to get a copy of a book or text, which was about one year when written. He used innovation to take his idea and make it something that would be used world-wide. He really changed how lives were lived in that time period and years to come.
Not only was the printing press much faster than copying the book or text by hand, but it was extremely cheaper. Instead of paying someone to hand copy the book, people were able to pay a printing company to make a copy of the book that they wanted. It also offered books to people who before, were not able to afford someone to copy it for them. Books and other texts became spread out over time, so many more people had access to the texts from around the different parts of the world eventually. At the time, the printing press also created more job opportunities. Now, the person who was copying the book didn't need to know how to write well, but just how to operate the printing press.
Over time, the printing press evolved into something that is widely used today. Back in the time of Gutenberg, the press was faster than a person, but not as fast as books are being made today. Now, if someone publishes a book, then there are thousands of that book made and it is all over the country if not the world. This has been all made possible because of innovation. Over the course of the last couple hundred years, people have been thinking of ways to improve the idea of the printing press. And that, over time, has morphed into what we use and have today.