Many people worldwide are quick to credit Germany's Johannes Gutenberg with the invention of movable type printing, but how many know about the pioneering work of Bi Sheng from ancient China? This ...

One of the worlds oldest printing techniques, wooden movable-type printing is maintained in Ruian County, Zhejiang Province, where it is used in compiling and printing clan genealogies. Men are ...

The printing press is “a device that allows for the mass production of uniform printed matter”, explained History.com. Before its invention, all manuscripts had to be written out by hand, and ...

An “incredibly rare” page from one of the world's first books produced using movable metal type, the Gutenberg Bible, will go ...

Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type ... of his new technology — the movable-type printing press — by producing an ...