1. Not that I want to spoil any dreams here, but movable type printing was invented a century before Gutenberg, in Korea...
    It is probable that Neither Gutenberg nor this guy Koster had heard of Korea, but it still makes them collective second best... :-)
      posted by dda at 04:16:59 PM on June 12, 2004  
  2. Yes, this page has more about it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press
      posted by Hans Nowak at 05:35:40 PM on June 12, 2004