Cai Lun

50 – 121 · China · Engineering

Standardised papermaking, the substrate of recorded civilisation.

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  • Johannes Gutenberg

    1400 – 1468 · Engineering

    Paper, travelling west over a millennium, is the substrate movable type required.

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