I Am A Craftsman But My

This saying is attributed to Johannes Gutenberg but is apocryphal — no personal writings by Gutenberg survive to verify it. What is historically established is that Gutenberg was a trained goldsmith who applied metalworking skills — alloy composition, precision casting, and toolmaking — to the challenge of producing durable, reusable metal type. His workshop in Mainz in the late 1440s and early 1450s combined craft knowledge with commercial ambition, and the resulting technology reshaped communication, religion, and science across the following two centuries.