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The start of the Industrial Revolution.
A radical process of social and economic change which took place in England from 1760 to 1840. -
Fat-face Type Design
Created by Robert Thorne. The contrast and weight were expanded by thickening the heavy strokes. -
Egyptian Faces Type Design
Created by Vincent Figgins. -
Tuscan-style Type Design
Created by Vincent Figgins. Serifs are extended and curved with bulges, cavities, and ornaments. -
Sans-serif Type Design
Created by William Caslon IV. The design is similar to the Egyptian Face type with the serif removed. -
New York Printing Firm
James and John Harper launched a New York printing firm which rapidly grew into the largest printing and publishing firm
in the world. -
Joseph Niepce
A Lithographic printer; the first person who was able to produce a surviving photographic image. -
Darius Wells
An American printer who experimented with hand-carved wooden types. He created a lateral router that enabled the mass manufacturing of wood types for display printing. -
William Leavenworth
Combined the pantograph with the router, which made it easy to introduce new wood-type fonts. -
Chromolithography
Is the process of printing color pictures and lettering from stone or zinc printing plates. -
"The Pencil of Nature"
Published by William Henry Fox Talbot, included twenty-four photographs in each issue, making it a milestone in the history of books. -
Pictorial Magazine
The New York Printing firm opened the era of the pictorial magazine. (James and John Harper) -
Lithography
From 1860 to the 1900s, Lithography was the dominant printing
medium for advertising posters. -
Walter Crane
Published Railroad Alphabet, which is a children's picture book that aimed to entertain instead of teaching. His inspiration came from the flat color and flowing contours of Japanese woodblock prints. -
Brass Matrix
Ottmar Mergenthaler, demonstrated his Linotype machine on
July 3, 1886. The Linotype composed a line of type called brass matrix. -
Minolta Camera
Camera created by George Eastman, which allowed ordinary citizens to create images to document life experiences. -
Century Typeface
Designed by Linn Boyd. Slightly extended, with thicker thin
strokes and short slab serifs.