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oct 31, 1045 - Bi Sheng invented movable type in 1045

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Bi Sheng invented movable type, or a separate piece of type for each character in the language. The Chinese writing system contains hundreds to thousands of different characters, so most Chinese printers found movable type uneccisarry.

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World History Chapter 17, section 1 and 2.

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