The Last and Final Invention

     This is the last invention of the renaissance, and probably one of the more important. We've covered the flushable toilet, matches, and the submarine.... Now for invention 4/4, and maybe the most well known invention of the Renaissance period....
     The movable type!
     It was modified from the printing press by Johannes Gutenburg. Instead of having just a few preset words, like 'Good', 'night', and 'moon', you could just use the letters instead of the words so that you could instead say 'Good night, Mr. Johnson, and thanks for the pie.' It was much more efficient and simpler. He made letters, symbols, and numbers. A lot more work could be done and a lot more things could be made, which led to much more money. Here is some more facts about Johannes Gutenberg:

• His full name is Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg. It's very long and difficult :P
• Born in Mainz, Germany. Mainz is the capitol of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
• There was a lot of new books, probably due to his printing of the Gutenberg Bible. This was the first Bible people mass-produced.
• Gutenberg started printing the bibles on February 23rd of 1455.
• Gutenberg wasn't very smart about his new business and didn't get much money out of it.
• He had legal difficulties and eventually lost his presses to his partner, Johann Fust.
• There are only 60 of the original Gutenberg Bibles left in the world.
• Gutenberg died in his hometown of Mainz in 1468.

     In conclusion, this invention was very important to this time and is very inmportant to us now. We would still be printing words for word, and the language wouldn't hav changed from that time period. It would be difficult for us to get ahold of books because they'd be so hard to make.