Meanings of movable type in English

The original Morse transmitter had consisted of a porte-rule and movable type.

The printing press with movable type had essentially been invented in the 1440s.

Both paper and movable type had to be invented.

The other great event of that same century was the invention of printing with movable type.

Almost coeval with the advent of these intellects was the invention of printing with movable type.

The first movable type appeared with Gutenberg's Bible in the 1450s, and everything followed from there.

The quest revolves around a secret society, a vital narrative and a missing set of movable type.

The art of printing from movable type, beginning with Gutenberg about 1450, helped to further the Renaissance.

As for reviving letterpress printing, up until the mid-1980s The Irish Times was printed letterpress with movable type.

They barely had movable type.

All new technologies, going back to fire and the wheel, by way of movable type and light bulbs, de-skill people.

Men now had a material moderate in price, durable, and one that would easily receive the impression of movable type.

Once you invent the printing press, all the books that are better-suited to movable type migrate into that new form.

About 1455, he produced what later became known as the Gutenberg Bible, the first book to be printed from movable type.

This is best exemplified by comparing Chinese printing methods, intent on letters seen as images, with those following Gutenberg's movable type.

In the old days-beforemovable type, before ankle-lengthtrousers, before heliocentrism-therewas little curiosity about the next decade or the next century.