The printing press is the most important invention in the last 1000 years. It has had an enormous effect on every culture in the world and started an industry that controls massive amounts of power. Without this invention our world would be very different whether for better or worse. The original method of printing was invented in China and was known as block printing. It was a very simple process in which you pressed sheets of …showed first 75 words of 880 total…

…showed last 75 words of 880 total…have today in which we are all connected. When it was first created the impact it had on the Protestant Reformation changed the course of religious history and because it allowed scientists to communicate it started the Scientific Revolution, which arguably could be one of the most important events of that time. Though many other breakthroughs have happened over the past 1,000 years we would not be where we are today without Johannes Guttenberg's printing press.