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  2. 30 Color Photos Photographers Took 100 Years Ago That Still ...

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    Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company "There was a two-color process invented around 1913 by Kodak that used two glass plates in contact with each other, one being red-orange and the other ...

  3. Chromolithography - Wikipedia

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    Before final printing, the image is proof printed and any errors corrected. In the direct form of printing, the inked image is transferred under pressure onto a sheet of paper using a flat-bed press. The offset indirect method uses a rubber-covered cylinder that transfers the image from the printing surface to the paper. Colours may be ...

  4. History of paper - Wikipedia

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    The word "paper" is etymologically derived from papyrus, Ancient Greek for the Cyperus papyrus plant. Papyrus is a thick, paper-like material produced from the pith of the Cyperus papyrus plant which was used in ancient Egypt and other Mediterranean societies for writing long before paper was used in China.

  5. 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.

  6. Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The Industrial Revolution led to a population increase, but the chances of surviving childhood did not improve throughout the Industrial Revolution, although infant mortality rates were reduced markedly. [109] [166] There was still limited opportunity for education, and children were expected to work. Employers could pay a child less than an ...

  7. Winter of 1989: The Velvet Revolution in pictures

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    Revolution was already in the air that winter. Harris had just come from Berlin , where he photographed the dramatic fall of the Berlin Wall and the beginnings of a united Germany.

  8. Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) - Wikipedia

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    The paper clip attaches sheets of paper together, allowing them to be detached as necessary. The first patent for a bent wire paper clip was awarded to its inventor, Samuel B. Fay, in 1867. [173] 1867 Barbed wire. Barbed wire is a type of fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands.

  9. Technological and industrial history of the United States

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    This can be illustrated by the index of total industrial production, which increased from 4.29 in 1790 to 1,975.00 in 1913, an increase of 460 times (base year 1850 – 100). [5] American colonies gained independence in 1783 just as profound changes in industrial production and coordination were beginning to shift production from artisans to ...