Famous personalities are not remembered for the number of inventions made during their lifetime, but for the reach of their inventions and the efficient functioning of their inventions. Though people like Edison, Einstein, Galileo, etc. are remembered for the number of inventions and of course the eventual usage of these inventions, there are certain inventors and scientists like Benjamin Franklin and Johann Gutenberg who are remembered not for the number of inventions they made, but for the reach which their inventions fetched them. For instance, consider the case of Johann Gutenberg who built the first ever printing machine. This was one single invention in the history of the world that would go down into the annals of history. If it was not for Gutenberg, the world would have still read from manuscripts which would have been hard to decipher and hard to read apart from difficulty in large scale productions. Though Gutenberg invented one of the most revered and noteworthy machines ever seen by man, he had to live in abject poverty and dire straits during his final few years of life. It was due to his long term sponsor by the name Fust that Gutenberg had to experience hardship in his last few years before death. Nevertheless, Gutenberg finds a place in my list of all time great personalities!
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