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Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg's invention of movable type printing in Europe around 1440 democratised knowledge by making books affordable to non-aristocrats for the first time. Within 50 years of the Gutenberg Bible (1455), presses across Europe had produced 20 million books. The printing press directly enabled the Protestant Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the spread of vernacular literatures, and ultimately the Enlightenment.
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