Typography created in the mid 1400's, when it was created by a German inventor, is the term for printing with independent, movable, and reusable bits of metal or wood, each with a raised letterform on top. The creation of typography ranks near the invention of writing as one of the most important advances in civilization it allowed the economical and multiple production of alphabet communication, and because of this knowledge was able to be spread rapidly. People were becoming more intelligent as a result. If one wanted to purchase a book during this time they had to be patient as it took 5 months for a 200 page book for a scribe to complete it.
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