7 sentences with 'movable'
Example sentences and phrases with the word movable and other words derived from it.
• « With movable type printing, an entire book could be printed with clear, legible lettering, and at a fraction of the cost of hand copying. »
• « The German printer Johann Gutenberg published a Bible in Mainz in 1456 using movable type, a system of which he is regarded as the inventor. »
• « This innovation, known as movable type printing, made it feasible to print not just a single page of text, but simply rearranged the letters to print subsequent pages. »
• « The movable type press helped to completely transform the cultural and social landscape of the following centuries: knowledge was gradually able to reach the general public. »
• « In the late 1440s, a German goldsmith named Johannes Gutenberg, from the town of Meinz, came up with the idea of carving individual letters into small movable blocks of wood (or casting them in metal) that could be rearranged as necessary to create words. »
• « In the Archaeological Museum in Athens there is a machine built - almost entirely - of bronze. It has 40 gear wheels, 9 movable scales and 3 axles. It also has a central wheel with 240 teeth, a differential and a major axle that started the mechanism and went outside. All this is enclosed in a bronze case, too. »
• « But apart from these fixed characters, we find as early as the eleventh century in China the first movable characters made in terracotta and pasted on plates with resin: our Gutenberg was preceded by about four hundred years. Unlike paper, however, printing did not come to Europe by import, but was born there as an independent invention. »
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