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.
Johannes Gutenberg got rid of the woodblock ideas and tried to work with metal. He decided it worked very well and was completing the first book ever printed by his new invention, which was movable type. The first book was the Bible, which was printed in Latin. His invention was called the printing press. Soon enough the blacksmith that Johannes Gutenberg was working for lost faith in him and decided to take him to court. The judge favored with Fust, so everything Gutenberg worked on and owned belonged to Fust. Johannes Gutenberg ended up dying in Mainz, Germany in 1468.