Early Mechanical Printing

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Early Mechanical Printing':

  • Aachen Cathedral Gutenburg created his first pieces with moveable type as momentos for pilgrims heading to Aachen, when this was cancelled one year he was forced to reveal his secret invention as a way of repaying len
  • Luther Memorials
  • Lyons
  • Mogao Caves Diamond Sutra (currently in the British Museum)
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine
  • Plantin-Moretus Museum
  • Strasbourg-Grande īsle This is where Gutenberg lived when he perfected the movable type and first displayed the printing press
  • Venice and its Lagoon