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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Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys Senefelder, born in 1771, was lithography's inventor.
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Almost without thinking, Senefelder wrote the list on a flat piece of limestone that had come from the quarries of Solnhofen.
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Senefelder could now transfer his de sign to paper in a simple hand press, though the wetting and inking had to be repeated for each lithograph made.
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Aloys Senefelder, the inventor of the art, has the direction of the works, with a well-merited pension, and the title of Inspector of Lithography.
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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