Everywhere else, they agreed on a palette of soft neutrals, to avoid cluttering the pint-size place with visual noise. Feathers, $0: Brooke simply thumbtacked feathers to the wall. Artwork, $5 each: The Hansons hunt for frames at garage sales, then fill them with ferns and flowers from the woods. Couch, $1,800: Crate & Barrel's streamlined yet comfortable sofa represents a worth-every-penny splurge.
He made more than 30,000 wooden movable types and printed 100 copies of Records of Jingde County (ãæå¾·å¿å¿ã), a book of more than 60,000 Chinese characters. Soon afterwards, he summarized his invention in his book A method of making moveable wooden types for printing books.
2) The invention of the printing press. In 1440 the printing press was invented which allowed these old scrolls be printed. The printing press was a powerful tool. It allowed ideas to be shared and spread rapidly. The Greek and Roman writings that came in from Constantinople were printed and spread across Europe.