The following marriage license applications were received by the Marion County Circuit Clerkâs Office during the week of Feb. 5: â¢ Bruce Christopher Jr. of Columbia and Bettina Consuela Smith of Columbia. â¢ Shandose Chance Stuart of Columbia and Shelbi Kathleen Broome of Columbia.
By the 9th century, Chinese craftsmen had developed a way to mass produce books by carving words and pictures into wooden blocks, inking them, and then pressing paper onto the blocks. Each block consisted of an entire page of text and illustrations.
In the 1400s Johannes Gutenberg of Germany invented a new method of printing. It used movable type-metal letters that could be arranged and rearranged to form words. It also used a machine called a press. His method was so good that very few improvements were made to it for 400 years afterward.