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The Roman republic use private libraries
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Fu Xi creates a bookcase used during chinese empire
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John Danner of Canton, Ohio, invented a revolving bookcase with a patented "pivot and post" design.
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Danner's bookcase appeared in the Montgomery Ward catalog
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Revolving bookcases were popularized in Buddhist monasteries during the Song Dynasty under the reign of Emperor Taizu, who ordered the mass printing of the Buddhist Tripiṭaka scriptures.