> --- Damon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Or that it was a medieval German > >that invented the printing press. >
Jan Coffey wrote: > > The chinese invented the printing press. > That german just copied it. > Gutenberg is credited for inventing movable type. There had been other methods for pressing ink images onto paper for centuries before him, including the method brought over from China. With the new concept of movable type, a page press could be assembled in hours instead of days, and it had the added benefit of having all componets of the page being reusable, instead of, for example, a block carving which could only be used for that page. -- Matt _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
