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Technology That Changed The World - The Printing Press
An Information Revolution
Author: Joanne MatternIllustrator:
| Retail Price: | $19.50 |
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ISBN: 9780823964888
Format: Hardback
Published: May 2004
Published By: Powerkids Press
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Published: May 2004
Published By: Powerkids Press
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Titles that are READY TO SHIP will be sent from our warehouse within 2 business days while stocks last. Click here for more details.
Product Description
People have been printing for thousands of years. In ancient China, Japan, and Korea, people carved words and pictures on wood blocks. Dyes were put on the blocks. Then, the wood blocks were pressed against paper to make an image. Around the year 1050, movable type was invented by Pi Sheng, a printer in China. This first movable type used single letters that were carved in separate clay tablets, or blocks.