Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cai Lun, Bi Sheng, Movable Type
29 Nov 2017
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Mit 2000 the history of communication : lecture 5. The printing press and the protestant reformation (cid:12254) Education, increase in knowledge, more correct reproductions of scientific drawings. First example of a standardized and increasingly automatic machinery (cid:12254) Same size & shape, easy create a frame and replace as you see fit (cid:12254) Efficiency, does not require a lot of skill. This invention is attributed to johan gutenberg ca. But the components of the press had been invented much earlier (centuries). A system and technology for printing and typography that uses moveable components ( types ) individual letters, punctuation, numbers or words to reproduce documents on the medium of paper. Moveable type is the original model of the standardized, replaceable part. First invented by bi sheng in china in the mid-11th century for printing paper books by first using porcelain and then wood as material for the type. Bi sheng"s invention uses a separate piece of type for each character.
