Gutenberg Did Not Make the First Moveable Metal Printer
The invention that changes the world does not happen over a minute of thoughts, most likely because others already made it. But there are thousands of inventions that did change the world. However, education led to those inventions and there is one invention that spread, gives, and records knowledge, making it possible that those inventions could be made, the movable metal typer.
The movable metal typer, not to be confused by the first typer, which was made by the Chinese, was a metal typer that could be organized to make words and sentences. This made it easy as you would only need one typer for the whole book, while the Chinese one could only type one section. However, this is where the problem emerges: Who made it?
While many people were told, read, or taught (if not, it’s fine, that’s better actually) that Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg, or just Gutenberg, a German goldsmith, made the first movable metal printer, THAS IS A LIE, IT WAS THE KOREANS!
This is what produced the Jikji, a Buddhist scripture. As you can see, the letter could be repositioned so that only one would be needed to produce a book.
The second version of the printed book was bought by a French diplomat, which is still in Bibliothèque nationale de France.
