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The world’s oldest known printed book, The Diamond Sutra, a seven-page scroll printed with wood blocks on paper, is produced in China in year 808.
The Chinese and Koreans continue to experiment with movable type, using clay, wood, bronze and iron. The complexity of Chinese and Korean symbols creates a major stumbling block to the process in the 11th century.
German Johann Gutenberg invents movable type by developing foundry-cast metal characters and a wooden printing press in 1440.
Gutenberg prints his first book, a Latin Bible in 1445
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