bi sheng invented the world's first movable type and machine to reproduce text.
bi sheng invented the world's first movable type and machine to reproduce text.
who invented the world's first movable type and machine to reproduce text?
bi sheng
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movable type (us english; moveable type in british english) is the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual alphanumeric characters or punctuation marks) usually on the medium of paper.









































the world's first movable type printing technology for printing paper books was made of porcelain materials and was invented around 1040 ad in china during the northern song dynasty by the inventor bi sheng (990–1051). the oldest extant book printed with movable metal type, jikji, was printed in korea in 1377 during the goryeo dynasty.
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although wang's "nong shu" was mostly printed by use of woodblock printing, his innovation of wooden movable type soon became popularly used in the region of anhui. wang's wooden movable type was used to print the local gazetteer paper of jingde city, which incorporated the use of 60,000 written characters organized on revolving tables. during the year of 1298, roughly one hundred copies of this were printed by wooden movable type in a month's time. following in the footsteps of wang, in 1322 the magistrate of fenghua, zhejiang province, named ma chengde, printed confucian classics with movable type of 100,000 written characters on needed revolving tables. the process of metal movable type was also developed in joseon korea by the 13th century, while metal movable type was not pioneered in china until the ming dynasty (1368–1644) printer hua sui used bronze movable type in 1490. although metal movable type became available in china during the ming period, wooden movable type persisted in common use even until the 19th century. after that point, the european printing press machine first pioneered by johannes gutenberg in the 15th century became the mainstay and standard in china and for the most part the global community until the advent of digital printing and the modern computer printer.
wang zhen (inventor)