this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.

Thursday, November 02, 2006























The Invention of Printing
Movable type, invented by Johannes Gutenberg in Germany
in the early fifteenth century, revolutionized writing in the
West. Whereas scribes had previously manufactured books
and documents by hand, printing with type allowed for mass
production: large quantities of letters could be cast from a
mold and assembled into“forms.” After the pages were proofed,
corrected, and printed, the letters were put away in gridded cases
for reuse. Movable type had been employed earlier in China, but
it had proven less useful there. Whereas the Chinese writing
system contains tens of thousands of distinct characters, the
Latin alphabet translates the sounds of speech into a small set
of marks, making it well-suited to mechanization.

No comments: