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.
Want to know who invented the book? Johann Gutenberg is nearly universally credited with being the inventor of the printing press, and the father of the modern printed book. Gutenberg was an early communications catalyst who invention of the printed book opened up the world to the quick and efficient spread of knowledge and ideas.