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Moveable Letters Printing Press
The above photo was taken at the Clements library. It is of multiple Chinese symbols used to make different characters that are printed on metal. Before the actual printing press was manufactured, European countries invented move-able text. A word could be created by placing letters in a certain order, and it was easier to mass produce texts. Of course as time went on, the printing press was invented which made things even easier to deal with.
What is really cool, however, are these Chinese symbols. They are the Chinese version of move-able text, and they out-date European methods by a couple centuries! It is often believed that Europeans are the first to invent so many ideas, however here is a case where we have been proven wrong. Asians had been using move-able print for centuries before Europeans even started to think about it.
This goes to show how advanced some countries can be, without even showing a trace of it for years to come. We do not get the chance to learn about how Asians could have created something before it was discovered by other parts of the world; they are basically just not credited to such things.
This also takes me back to when my grandfather used to tell me that Europeans took Asian ideas as their own. I am not saying that a European went to Asia, took the idea and said it was their own, but it is a plausible idea. What I believe is the real situation is that two different people had the same idea. This can also be very plausible, and is probably what actually happened.
Moveable Letters Printing Press
The above photo was taken at the Clements library. It is of multiple Chinese symbols used to make different characters that are printed on metal. Before the actual printing press was manufactured, European countries invented move-able text. A word could be created by placing letters in a certain order, and it was easier to mass produce texts. Of course as time went on, the printing press was invented which made things even easier to deal with.
What is really cool, however, are these Chinese symbols. They are the Chinese version of move-able text, and they out-date European methods by a couple centuries! It is often believed that Europeans are the first to invent so many ideas, however here is a case where we have been proven wrong. Asians had been using move-able print for centuries before Europeans even started to think about it.
This goes to show how advanced some countries can be, without even showing a trace of it for years to come. We do not get the chance to learn about how Asians could have created something before it was discovered by other parts of the world; they are basically just not credited to such things.
This also takes me back to when my grandfather used to tell me that Europeans took Asian ideas as their own. I am not saying that a European went to Asia, took the idea and said it was their own, but it is a plausible idea. What I believe is the real situation is that two different people had the same idea. This can also be very plausible, and is probably what actually happened.