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.
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.he invention of the printing press led to a huge increase of printing activities across Europe within only a few decades. From a single print shop in Mainz, Germany, printing had spread to no less than around 270 cities in Central, Western and Eastern Europe by the end of the 15th century.