THE GUTENBERG REVOLUTION: A HISTORY OF INNOVATION

Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the printing press in the mid-15th century transformed the world. This groundbreaking device enabled the mass production of literature, breaking the previous monopoly of knowledge held by the clergy. Before Gutenberg's innovation, books were painstakingly written by hand, making them rare and accessible only to the

On a blustery afternoon in that fateful year, disaster unfolded Boston. A massive tank filled with sticky, sweet molasses ruptured sending a wall of of the thick liquid flowing through the streets. The power was catastrophic, smashing buildings and entombing citizens in a treacly soup. Hundreds of people were fatally injured, and many more sustai