GUTENBERG REVOLUTION (P/B)

IN 1450, ALL EUROPE'S BOOKS WERE HANDCOPIED AND AMOUNTED TO ONLY A FEW THOUSAND. BY 1500 THEY WERE PRINTED, AND NUMBERED IN THEIR MILLIONS. THE INVENTION OF ONE MAN - JOHANN GUTENBERG - HAD CAUSED A REVOLUTION. PRINTING BY MOVABLE TYPE WAS A DISCOVERY WAITING TO HAPPEN. BORN IN 1400 IN MAINZ, GERMANY, GUTENBERG STRUGGLED AGAINST A BACKGROUND OF PLAGUE AND RELIGIOUS UPHEAVAL TO BRING HIS REMARKABLE INVENTION TO LIGHT. HIS STORY IS FULL OF PARADOX HIS AMBITION WAS TO REUNITE ALL CHRISTENDOM, BUT HIS INVENTION SHATTERED IT; HE AIMED TO MAKE A FORTUNE, BUT WAS CRUELLY DENIED THE FRUITS OF HIS LIFE'S WORK. YET HISTORY REMEMBERS HIM AS A VISIONARY; HIS DISCOVERY MARKS THE BEGINNING OF THE MODERN WORLD.