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  2. Louis-Nicolas Robert - Wikipedia

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    Nicolas Louis Robert (2 December 1761 – 8 August 1828) was a French soldier and mechanical engineer, who is credited with a paper-making invention that became the blueprint of the Fourdrinier machine. In 1799, Robert patented the first machine to produce 'continuous paper'. [2][1][4] After a series of legal and financial quarrels with Saint ...

  3. History of animation - Wikipedia

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    Fiddlesticks, released together with King of Jazz, was the first Flip the Frog film and the first project Ub Iwerks worked on after he had left Disney to set up his studio. In England, the cartoon was released in Harris Color, [ 33 ] a two-color process, probably as the first theatrically released standalone animated cartoon to boast both sound ...

  4. Wallpaper - Wikipedia

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    Wallpapers can come plain as "lining paper" to help cover uneven surfaces and minor wall defects, "textured", plain with a regular repeating pattern design, or with a single non-repeating large design carried over a set of sheets. The smallest wallpaper rectangle that can be tiled to form the whole pattern is known as the pattern repeat.

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

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    The act of decorating walls can be traced back to our early ancestors, but modern wallpaper has a macabre past. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...

  6. Surface printing - Wikipedia

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    Surface printing is an automated printing method. 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.

  7. Edward Raymond Turner - Wikipedia

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    London, England. Occupation (s) Film maker, inventor. Known for. Producing the first color motion picture film. Edward Raymond Turner (1873 – 9 March 1903) was a pioneering British inventor and cinematographer. He produced the earliest known colour motion picture film footage. [1]

  8. Color Graphics Adapter - Wikipedia

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    Plantronics. PCjr/Tandy. EGA. MCGA. PGC. The Color Graphics Adapter (CGA), originally also called the Color/Graphics Adapter or IBM Color/Graphics Monitor Adapter, [1] introduced in 1981, was IBM 's first color graphics card for the IBM PC and established a de facto computer display standard.

  9. Film colorization - Wikipedia

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    A hand-colored print of George Méliès' The Impossible Voyage (1904). The first film colorization methods were hand done by individuals. For example, at least 4% of George Méliès' output, including some prints of A Trip to the Moon from 1902 and other major films such as The Kingdom of the Fairies, The Impossible Voyage, and The Barber of Seville were individually hand-colored by Elisabeth ...