Friday, August 31, 2012

Book's history

If we talk about book, of course we can't forget someone's service from China. That person is Tsai Lun. He is regarded as the inventor of paper and the papermaking process. At China, people start to wrote their work or their project in wooden tool. That tool can printed alphabets and then people arrange those alphabet to make a word or a sentence. Look at this condition, Tsai Lun got inspiration to make a paper. He think if he make a paper people can write easier. After a few invention, finally he success made a paper.

Tsai Lun

A years later, Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg from German try to made a tool which can produce book with metal alphabets. Then Gutenberg start to completed his creation with make a printing machine. But to finish one book that machine need a long time. After that, many people try to improve that tool. And now technology more advance. We can produce book in large quantities with a short time.

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg