If you’re listening to this episode when it comes out, you may know that The Story Behind book will be released on Monday, October 15th. In the spirit of that, I’ll be doing a few episodes revolving around books. This topic seemed almost too easy to cover, since the invention was something I think we all remember learning about in grammar school.

But, as per usual with this podcast and the book, whenever I dig a little deeper, I always find out new information that wasn’t in my history books. While those books were most likely printed using modern-day printers, there wouldn’t even have been widespread use of books without today’s topic in the first place.

I’m your host, Emily Prokop, and this is The Story Behind the Printing Press.

I’ll be releasing a separate episode with a book update, plus a sneak peek into the book’s acknowledgments because I really want to thank everyone, not just in the book, but also in the podcast, so check your podcast app and the show notes for that link.

• The Story Behind Book Update #2
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Media:

• Music for Makers

Sources:

• Who Invented the Printing Press? - Live Science
• Johannes Gutenberg - Biography
• Disruption, Inventors, and Investors - Forbes
• 10 Things You Should Know About the Gutenberg Bible - Book Riot
• Gutenberg Bible - Digital Version - The University of Texas at Austin
• Johannes Gutenberg: The Steve Jobs of His Time - Medium
• Faust - Encyclopedia Britannica
• Gutenberg and Fust - History World
• Gutenberg’s Legacy - The University of Texas at Austin
• Johann Gutenberg: Adventure and Art - Vision.org
• 7 Little-Known Facts about Johannes Gutenberg and the Gutenberg Press - Earth Color
• The Invention of the Printing Press - PS Print
• The Gutenberg Press - Oregon State University

Referenced:

• Even without the Banana Slugs, schools with wrestling have plenty of colorful and unique nicknames - Mat Talk Online