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Show Printing in China 50 B. C. Printing is traced to China where as e as 50 B. C. the Chinese had originated a method of printing S ta on paper by means of engraved en-graved blocks. The question of who L nrst to employ movable nrinting types has long been a mat-tPer mat-tPer of controversy. Laurens Jans- nn Coster of Haarlem, Holland, zoon Coster invented woQden 15 ! bout H20 and movable metal tyP herween 1440 and 1446. How-type How-type between Gutenberg, of MaTnz Germany, that is attributed Mainz o inventor or ftZst responsible for the great dement in the production of celebrated Bible in 15. |