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    Movable type (US English; moveable type in British English) is the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce...
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    Movable Type is a weblog publishing system developed by the company Six Apart. It was publicly announced on September 3, 2001; version 1.0 was publicly...
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  • textual printing in the publishing industry Type can refer to a font style, e.g., "italic type" Movable type, in letterpress printing Sort (typesetting)...
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    book documented instructions on how to use the copper movable type. The use of metal movable type spread to Korea by the 13th century during the Goryeo...
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    use of copper movable types was documented in a Song-era book from 1193, and the earliest printed paper money using movable metal type to print the identifying...
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    that century. Later developments in printing technology include the movable type invented by Bi Sheng around 1040 AD and the printing press invented by...
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    collection. About 4 percent of it was printed in movable type in 1773, but it was hand-carved movable wooden type. Indeed, the entire collection was only printed...
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    page, unless the page is printed twice. Traditional text printing with movable type is also a relief technique. This meant that woodcuts were much easier...
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    precise and rapid creation of metal movable type in large quantities. His two inventions, the hand mould and the movable-type printing press, together drastically...
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    technologies such as movable type, the letterpress, and lithography. Chinese alchemist Pi Sheng invented the concept of movable type, circa 1045 CE. He...
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    rapid expansion of woodblock printing and the 11th-century invention of movable type printing. Philosophers such as Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi reinvigorated Confucianism...
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    dynasty Chinese artisan, engineer, and inventor of the world's first movable type technology. Bi Sheng's system used fired clay tiles, one for each Chinese...
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    the printing press began with the invention of the printing press with movable type by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany c. 1439. Western printing technology...
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    Johannes Gutenberg independently invented movable type in Europe, along with innovations in casting the type based on a matrix and hand mould. This invention...
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    which seals in the synovial fluid. They are the most common and most movable type of joint in the body of a mammal. As with most other joints, synovial...
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    Johannes Gutenberg (category German typographers and type designers)
    was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention...
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    Typography with movable type was invented during the eleventh-century Song dynasty in China by Bi Sheng (990–1051). His movable type system was manufactured...
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  • but are the means by which people are re-invented. The invention of movable type was the decisive moment in the change from a culture in which all the...
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    dynasty (1271–1368). He was one of the early innovators of the wooden movable type printing technology. His illustrated agricultural treatise was also one...
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    type is a block with a typographic character etched on it, used—when lined up with others—to print text. In movable-type printing, the sort or type is...
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    However, commoner craftsmen such as Bi Sheng (972–1051), the inventor of movable type printing (in a form predating the printing press of Johannes Gutenberg)...
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    using woodblock movable type printing during the 18th century. Although superseded by western printing techniques, woodblock movable type printing remains...
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    concave mirror and that of the pinhole. Shen wrote extensively about movable type printing invented by Bi Sheng (990–1051), and because of his written...
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    Sui is best known for creating China's first metal movable type printing in 1490 AD. Metal movable type printing had been invented in Korea during the earlier...
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    Korea (category Pages using infobox country or infobox former country with the flag caption or type parameters)
    exonym "Korea", was highly cultured and created the world's first metal movable type in 1234. During the 13th century, the Mongol Empire made Goryeo its vassal...
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    fifteenth century with the use of movable type. The central problem posed to early music engravers using moveable type was the proper integration of notes...
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  • Moveable (redirect from Movables)
    Moveable may refer to: A Moveable Feast Moveable feast Movable type Moveable bridge History of printing in East Asia Personal property This disambiguation...
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    of a compass for navigation, the first to describe the invention of movable type printing by contemporary artisan Bi Sheng, and the first in China to...
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  • Some weblog software, such as SilverStripe, WordPress, Drupal, and Movable Type, supports automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article...
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    A type case is a compartmentalized wooden box used to store movable type used in letterpress printing. Modern, factory-produced movable type was available...
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