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  2. Louis-Nicolas Robert - Wikipedia

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    In 1785, Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf invented the first machine for printing dyes on squares of wallpaper. The significance of Robert's invention was for more than mechanising a labour-intensive process, in also allowing continuous lengths of patterned and coloured paper to be produced for hanging.

  3. The surprising — and deadly — history of wallpaper - AOL

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    1838 Wallcoverings takes its name from the year in which the first surface printing wallpaper machine was invented in Lancashire, northern England. Indeed, many of the company’s designs continue ...

  4. Surface printing - Wikipedia

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    It first used in 1839. Most wallpaper was originally printed on surface printing machines. Surface printing machines are structured similarly to a ferris wheel, with a large central roller over which the paper travels; the individual ink rollers transfer an image to the paper on the main roller.

  5. Wallpaper - Wikipedia

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    The main historical techniques are hand-painting, woodblock printing (overall the most common), stencilling, and various types of machine printing. The first three all date back to before 1700. [1] Wallpaper, using the printmaking technique of woodcut, gained popularity in Renaissance Europe amongst the emerging gentry.

  6. 30 Color Photos Photographers Took 100 Years Ago That Still ...

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    Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell took the world's first colored photograph. He experimented with red, blue, and green filters while photographing a ribbon. By projecting all three images ...

  7. History of the graphical user interface - Wikipedia

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    It used windows, icons, and menus (including the first fixed drop-down menu) to support commands such as opening files, deleting files, moving files, etc. In 1974, work began at PARC on Gypsy, the first bitmap What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get cut and paste editor. In 1975, Xerox engineers demonstrated a graphical user interface "including icons and ...

  8. Timeline of photography technology - Wikipedia

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    The projected image is temporary but the set of three "color separations" is the first durable color photograph. 1868 – Louis Ducos du Hauron patents his numerous ideas for color photography based on the three-color principle, including procedures for making subtractive color prints on paper. They are published the following year.

  9. Color printing - Wikipedia

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    Two-color (red/blue) advertising The first widely reproduced image printed using the three-color process, by William Kurtz (January 1893) Typically color separation is the responsibility of the color separator. This includes cleaning up the file to make it print ready and creating a proof for the prepress approval process.