[Sca-cooks] moveable type

[Terry Decker]

There is no evidence that Gutenberg's moveable type was anything other than 
an independent invention.  There is no way to really tell where he got his 
ideas, because very little is known of his life.

No matter how he got the idea, it was the making standardized type of die 
cast metal that made the idea great.  When I first learned to set type in my 
uncle's shop some 500 years after Gutenberg, we were using the same kind of 
lead type with one exception, a groove along the bottom side so you could 
tell at a glance if you were setting the type properly.

Bear

> Is there any indication in your reading of how Gutenberg learned of 
> moveable type?
>
> Cordelia Tose