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.
Johannes Gutenberg, a goldsmith, and businessman from the mining town of Mainz in southern Germany, borrowed money to invent a technology that changed the world of printing. 1  Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press with replaceable/moveable wooden or metal letters in 1436 (completed by 1440).