Researching Gutenberg

Maybe people just think of the printing press when the name Gutenberg is mentioned but he was much more than just that.

His father was in engineering which I'm sure jump started his own skills in building things. He was also a 'merchant' which helped him in the business side of things talking to those venture capitalists who were key to the success of his great plan. He was also an interlectual and so he probably had a big heart for the reading community. This side of his expertise probably gave him a unique ability to meet the needs of his peers.

Perhaps the side of him that I like the most is his 'inventor' side. I can picture Gutenberg now sat in the scriptorium (the place where monks copied and duplicated scripture) all those hundreds of years ago having a blinding flash of inspiration to create a marvelous machine to do the work that was to humans so painstaking and laborius.