An important advancement to woodblock printing came in the early eleventh century, when a Chinese peasant named Bi Sheng (Pi Sheng) developed the world's first movable type.

Editor's note: Wooden movable-type printing, one of the oldest printing technologies invented in ancient China, was inscribed on UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent ...

A history of printing and publishing. 105 BC: Paper is first created by Ts’ai Lun of China. 794 AD: The first paper mill is built in Baghdad, in what is now Iraq. 932: Chinese printers begin ...

But the new DNA printing press drastically speeds the process up. The team created a set of 700 DNA bricks, each containing ...

Mr Chang's word-making shop still makes Chinese characters out of lead. The movable-type printing system invented around 1040 AD helped to revolutionise the world by making books and other written ...

Although the Chinese were using woodblock printing many centuries earlier, with a complete printed book, made in 868, found in a cave in north-west China, movable type printing never became very ...

Although Gutenberg is commonly credited with inventing the printing press, historians point out that there is evidence of moveable printing presses having been invented in Korea in 1234, and ...

Thanks to the printing press and the timely power of his message, Luther became the world’s first best-selling author. Luther’s translation of the New Testament into German sold 5,000 copies ...

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