Near the end of the year a German named Johann Gutenberg was desperate to find a way to make money Gutenberg had previously worked in a mint and realized that if he could use letter blocks to cut inside a machine it would make the printing process faster He would be able to reproduce a text in large numbers Gutenberg's new invention was about to change the world What distinguished Gutenberg's press from its predecessors was the mechanization of the transfer of ink to paper He adapted the screw mechanism used in wine paper and linen presses to develop a system perfectly suited to printing His device made it possible to create an initial assembly line production for printed texts

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