On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
> Patrick Schlichtenmyer schreef:
>
> > Well, my personal vote would have to go to Gutenberg's Printing Press.
> > Within the last 500 years it has revolutionized the world in which we
> > live in a way that would have been unlikely otherwise.
>
> Didn't the Chineese have a printing press a long time before Gutenberg?
Yes. It was the movable type that distinguished _Gutenberg's_
printing press, and that allowed for the revolution in printing.
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