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.
In 1377, the first movable metallic types were invented in Goryeo Dynasty in Korea, which were used to print Jikjishimcheyojeol or simply Jikji, which is the oldest extant movable metal print book. The printing press was introduced to the West in the Holy Roman Empire by Johannes Gutenberg, around 1440. Gutenberg, a goldsmith by profession, devised a hand mould to create metal movable type, and adapted screw presses and other existing technologies, to create a printing system.