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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by djtestudo
Last time I checked, there weren't newspapers, television, or the internet back in the 1400's 
It's pretty hard to do something like this in secret when there are so many opportunities for a pissed-off person to expose it. |
May not have been in the 1400, but the gutenburg press was in 1440.
But there is writing in long hand, and that was used to distribute information to people like newspapers.
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Bi Sheng (畢昇, died 1052) was the inventor of movable type printing in between 1041 to 1048 in China. His types were made of clay. Wang Zhen improved it with wood.
Bi Sheng was a cloth vendor by trade and his ancestry and details were not recorded.
He was recorded only in the Writings Beside the Meng Creek (夢溪筆談 Mengxi Bitan) by Shen Kuo (沈括). Writings Beside the Meng Creek, however, gave detailed and sufficient description on the technical details of Bi Sheng's invention of movable type.
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