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Senefelder

American

[zey-nuh-fel-der] / ˈzeɪ nəˌfɛl dər /

noun

Aloys 1771–1834, German inventor of lithography.

Senefelder British

/ ˈzenəˌfɛldə /

noun

( 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

In 1796, an imaginative Munich playwright named Alois Senefelder discovered that he could print from stone.

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

At length, it occurred to Senefelder that he could get a transferable design on his stone without having to eat the stone away with acid.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is an album of quite ancient lithographs, which was published at Berlin by Senefelder.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 by Various

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