X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Gutenberg


Gutenberg! The Musical!

His beautiful (but dim) assistant Helvetica is in love with him, but Gutenberg is unaware of her feelings.

That production was Music Directed and Accompanied by Michael Roulston and also starred the authors, Scott Brown and Anthony King.


Biff Mitchell

In 2005, Mitchell served as International Spokesperson for Read an eBook Week, during which time, he worked with Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, on a "Brief History of Project Gutenberg".

Dave Godfrey

In 1979 he edited a book on the subject with Douglas Parkhill, Gutenberg two, on the social and political meaning of computer technology, and he wrote The Telidon Book with Ernest Chang, about electronic publishing and video text, and founded a software development company called Softwords, working in that field.

Douglas Parkhill

He worked with Dave Godfrey, the Canadian writer and novelist on a later book Gutenberg two about the social and political meaning of computer technology.

Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition

It has been used as a source by many modern projects, including Wikipedia and the Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia.

Gutenberg–Richter law

Pathikrit Bhattacharya, Bikas K Chakrabarti, Kamal, and Debashis Samanta, "Fractal models of earthquake dynamics", Heinz Georg Schuster (ed), Reviews of Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity, pp.

Hermann Wagner

From 1973 to 1983 he continued his research on " T Cell mediated Immune Responses" with Paul Klein at the Institut of Microbiology of the Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz/Germany.

Korean nobility

Korean Buddhist monks also developed and used the first movable metal type printing presses in history—some 500 years before Gutenberg—to print ancient Buddhist texts.

Michael Hart

Michael S. Hart (1947–2011), American founder of Project Gutenberg

Museum of Design, Zürich

It documents the aesthetic and cultural transformation of graphics in everyday life from Gutenberg to the present.

SStB – Gutenberg

The name Gutenberg refers to Johannes Gutenberg and results from the fact that Sigl originally built printing machines.

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

News media - "We see a media landscape that is largely defined through the press and its heavy-duty Gutenberg technology, and a political landscape that is defined through the Cold War... The bustling newsroom with its exhorting wall poster slogans (Go for IMPACT!) is a nexus of conflicting information and misinformation, conjecture and rumour as the hacks try to get an angle on freak weather conditions in the silly season."

Thomas Franklin Carter

Pelliot took an immediate interest in the subject, bringing from his desk drawer a box full of movable type in Chinese characters, hundreds of years older than Gutenberg's, which he had found on a cave floor.

Torbjørn Olsen

He took the diploma degree in Catholic theology at the John-Gutenberg Universität in Mainz in 1991 and was ordained a priest in Tromsø in September 8, 1991 by Bishop Gerhard Goebel.

Villy-le-Bouveret

Since 1984, there has been an official partnership between Villy-le-Bouveret and Gutenberg in the Bad Kreuznach district.


see also