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Senefelder

American  
[zey-nuh-fel-der] / ˈzeɪ nəˌfɛl dər /

noun

  1. Aloys 1771–1834, German inventor of lithography.


Senefelder British  
/ ˈzenəˌfɛldə /

noun

  1. ( Johan Nepomuk Franz ) Aloys (ˈaloɪs). 1771–1834, German dramatist and engraver, born in Czechoslovakia, who invented (1796) lithography

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Early one morning last week a man approached a taxi driver in West Berlin and asked to be driven to the Senefelder Platz in the Soviet sector.

From Time Magazine Archive

Senefelder was familiar with etching, but etching a whole script on copper plates would take too much time.

From Time Magazine Archive

Senefelder gave up playwriting to devote himself to his invention.

From Time Magazine Archive

Almost without thinking, Senefelder wrote the list on a flat piece of limestone that had come from the quarries of Solnhofen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Weber and Senefelder both laid claim to the invention of lithography, though it was merely an old German art revived.

From Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Smiles, Samuel

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