First Printed Bible
In the 1430s, a German engraver and metal worker named Johannes Gutenberg began experimenting with novel, printing methods. Alongside oil based inks he played with durable tin alloys that melted and solidified quickly and without distortion.
This allowed him to create hundreds if identical casts of letters and place them together. In Strasbourg in 1456 he produced the first "Guthenberg Bible" using his moveable type process, which changed publishing for the next 500 years, untill the introduction of digital printing in the late 1990s.
An entire digitised version of one of Guthenberg's original bibles is freely available to view online at http://prodigi.bl.uk/treasures/gutenberg/search.asp