Senefelder
Americannoun
noun
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In 1796, an imaginative Munich playwright named Alois Senefelder discovered that he could print from stone.
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No sooner had the car stopped at the Senefelder Platz than two other men jumped in and seized the passenger, shouting: "At last we've nabbed you, you American cigarette racketeer."
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At length, it occurred to Senefelder that he could get a transferable design on his stone without having to eat the stone away with acid.
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Senefelder gave up playwriting to devote himself to his invention.
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In the course of his attempts to pursue and perfect his discovery, Senefelder was reduced to such poverty, that he offered himself to enlist for a common soldier, and, luckily, was refused.
From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
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