Tell about invention of Printing ?

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Johannes Gutenberg is usually cited as the inventor of the printing press

Indeed, the German goldsmith's 15th-century contribution to the technology was revolutionary

enabling the mass production of books and the rapid dissemination of knowledge throughout Europe.

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However, the history of printing begins long before Gutenberg's time.

The Invention and History of the Printing Press.

early 600 years before Gutenberg, Chinese monks were setting ink to paper using a method known as block printing,

The printing press allows us to share large amounts of information quickly and in huge numbers.

in which wooden blocks are coated with ink and pressed to sheets of paper.

One of the earliest surviving books printed in this fashion

In fact, the printing press is so significant that it has come to be known as one of the most important inventions of our time.

an ancient Buddhist text known as "The Diamond Sutra"

v It drastically changed the way society evolved.

was created in 868 during the Tang (T'ang) Dynasty (618-909) in China. The book,

which was sealed inside a cave near the city of Dunhuang, China, for nearly a thousand years before its discovery in 1900, is now housed in the British Library in London.

The oldest known book to have been printed by used cast metal type is the Sangjeong Gogeum Yemun, by Choe Yun-ui, in 1234.

he carved wooden blocks used for this early method of printing were also used in Japan and Korea as early as the eighth century.

Private printers in these places used both wood and metal blocks to produce Buddhist and Taoist treatises and histories in the centuries before movable type was invented.

However, all of the 50 original copies seem to have been lost.

An important advancement to woodblock printing came in the early eleventh century

The oldest extant book printed with movable metal type is the Jikji, which was printed during the Goryeo Dynasty in 1377.

when a Chinese peasant named Bi Sheng (Pi Sheng) developed the world's first movable type