ORIGIN OF THE PRINTING PRESS
The printing press is a device that enables for the production of uniform printed matter, mainly text within the form of books, newspapers and pamphlets, and it was created in China. BI SHENG and WANG CHEN are considered the initial inventors of printing press. The press revolutionized society there before being further developed in Europe within the 15th Century by Gutenberg and his invention of the Gutenberg press and after it took time in adaptation in the ottoman empire and other parts of the world. WHEN WAS THE PRINTING PRESS INVENTED? In reality, nobody knows when the first printing press was invented or who invented it, but the oldest known printed text originated in China during Tang Dynasty and the first millennium A.D. The Diamond Sutra is the one of the oldest Buddhist books belongs to Dunhuang China. It belongs around 868 A.D. during the Tang Dynasty. It is said to be the oldest known printed book. The Diamond Sutra was created with a method known as block printing, that ty...