AD 1041. Bi Sheng invented the art of letter-press printing.

公元1041年毕升发明活字印刷术取代刻版印刷。

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The printing press made it possible for almost anyone to buy a book.

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This is the freedom of the printing press.

这就是出版自由。

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Remember,there's no printing press in the ancient world.

要记得古代是没有印刷机的。

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As for the crudities of hot-metal typesetting and letter-press printing, all these have long been superseded by electronic setting (in which a 1970s managing director, Ian Trafford, was a pioneer, and made The Economist one too), and by the stunning quality of modern offset printing.

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Only printing press inventor Johannn Gutenburg, William Shakespeare, William Caxton, who brought printing to Britain, Leonardo da Vinci, Elizabeth the First and the discoverer of electricity, Michael Faraday, were more important than one of the heroes of Welsh history.

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Many eras also proclaimed storytelling's demise: the advent of the printing press, radio, television, the Internet.

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