There's a simple reason why Gutenberg's technology was explosive and these alleged Asian moveable type systems were not: "Gutenberg's True Innovation", not pre

There's a simple reason why Gutenberg's technology was explosive and these alleged Asian moveable type systems were not: "Gutenberg's True Innovation", not present in the article despite that being a paragraph heading, wasn't any of the things mentioned in the article. Gutenberg created a system to easily cast letters as interchangable parts (centuries before Eli Whitney, as it were) This meant that Gutenberg built a system to mass produce printing presses Carving the letters for an entire typeface by hand could take over a year. However, Gutenberg created a system for taking a hand-sculpted typeface, turning each letter into a mold, and then quickly and cheaply casting each letter. The result: mass production of the most difficult part of the system to produce, the typeface itself, and thus a way to mass produce printing presses. This article is about as poorly researched as The Oatmeal's ode to Tesla.