Invention of the Printing Press with Moveable Metal Type



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Y/M/D Description Place
1447/00/00 Construction begins on a library in Cesena commissioned by Malatesta Novello, Lord of Cesena. It will prove to be the last ancient library built before Gutenberg's printing press. Malatesta Novello Library, Cesena, IT
1450/00/00 By 1450, Johann Gutenberg has his printing press with metal movable type in operation. The first work printed may have been a German poem.

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