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The history of printing starts as early as 3000 BCE, when the proto-Elamite and Sumerian civilizations used cylinder seals to certify documents written in clay tablets. Other early forms include block seals, hammered coinage, pottery imprints, and cloth printing.
ca. 3100 BCE. Cuneiform, one of the earliest known writing systems developed in Sumer (modern day Iraq). Wedge-shaped marks were made on clay tablets by a blunt stylus cut from a reed. ca. 3000. Papyrus plant, paper-like material used as a writing surface in Egypt. Ink from lamp-black made in China.
YearEventca. 3100 BCECuneiform, one of the earliest known ...ca. 3000Papyrus plant, paper-like material used ...ca. 500Amate, a beaten paper-like material, made ...ca. 200Parchment, a material made from processed ...printing, traditionally, a technique for applying under pressure a certain quantity of colouring agent onto a specified surface to form a body of text or an illustration.
A short overview of how printing evolved from 3000 BC to Gutenberg's invention of the printing press onto today, with many images and links.
The oldest known printed works were made by this technique: in Japan about 764–770, Buddhist incantations ordered by Empress Shōtoku; in China in 868, the first known book, the Diamond Sūtra; and, beginning in 932, a collection of Chinese classics in 130 volumes, at the initiative of Fong Tao, a Chinese minister.
May 7, 2018 · Created in China, the printing press revolutionized society there before being further developed in Europe in the 15th Century by Johannes Gutenberg and his invention of the Gutenberg press. When...
The earliest known form of printing evolved from ink rubbings made on paper or cloth from texts on stone tablets, used during the sixth century. [1] [a] Printing by pressing an inked image onto paper (using woodblock printing) appeared later that century. [3]
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