In the 1880s, autotype was invented, allowing for photographs to be reproduced directly in newspapers.
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This discovery, significant for its capacity to facilitate the mass production of photographs, was later used by numerous figures such as Josef Albert, Joseph Wilson Swan, Paul Pretsch and Charles Nègre to develop subsequent photographic printing processes such as heliogravure, photogravure, collotype, autotype and carbon print.
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He also wrote the introduction to the Earl of Crawford's Autotype Facsimiles of Three Mappemondes. C. H. Coote contributed many articles to the ninth edition of Encyclopædia Britannica and to the Dictionary of National Biography, and he had been for several years a contributor to the Athenæum.
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Further south, Aurora Fashions has a main office off the B4449 on the Lakeside Ind Estate, Stanton Harcourt. Christys' & Co (formerly of Stockport), south of Witney next to the A40 (part of CW Headdress) make most of the British police hats and helmets. MacDermid Autotype at Wantage makes precision coated films. Oxford Instruments is in Marcham on the A338.
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Natural mineral resources are mined (quarried) in the Vale. These include sand, gravel and (formerly) Fuller's Earth. With the closure of British Leyland's long-established MG works at Abingdon in 1980, there is no motor industry, apart from some specialist car makers and component factories. Macdermid Autotype in Wantage remains one of the few large industrial employers in the region.
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Carbon tissue is a gelatin-based emulsion used as a photoresist in the chemical etching (photoengraving) of gravure cylinders for printing. This was introduced by British physicist and chemist Joseph Swan in 1864. It has been used in photographic reproduction since the early days of photography. Carbon materials marketing began in 1866 by Joseph Swan which he subsequently sold to the Autotype Company in 1868.
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Photographer to the Tsar: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin- Gorskii Library of Congress. Such methods lasted until about 1960 using the expensive and extremely complex tri-color carbro Autotype process. When employed, the reproduction of prints from three-plate photos was done by dyes or pigments using the complementary CMY model, by simply using the negative plates of the filtered takes: reverse red gives the cyan plate, and so on.
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The high pressure pushes the fibers of the dampened paper into the wells of the plate which then transfers the ink onto the paper thereby creating the impression. The paper is carefully peeled off the plate and placed between blotters and weighted so it will dry flat. The plate can now be re-inked for another impression or it can be cleaned for storage. Macdermid Autotype, the last manufacturer of the gelatin pigment paper (tissue) needed to make traditional copper plate photogravure, announced the end of their production in August 2009.
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At the British Museum, he arranged and cataloged the large collection of cuneiform texts from the Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, publishing "Catalogue of Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyundjik Collection of the British Museum", (1889) as a result. In London, he also recorded the clay tablets of El-Amarna (Egypt), of which he published "The Tell el-Amarna Tablets in the British Museum", (1892).Archive.org Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik collection of the British museumArchive.org The Tell El-Amarna Tablets in the British Museum with Autotype Facsimiles In 1884, along with Fritz Hommel, he founded the journal Zeitschrift für Keilschriftforschung und verwandte Gebiete, which in 1886 was superseded by the Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete.
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In 1905 The Strand Magazine noted that it was the most popular picture in the Tate Gallery, and remarked that "there are few print-sellers who fail to exhibit it in their windows.", reproduced After Watts's death the Autotype Company purchased from Mary Seton Watts the rights to make carbon print copies of Hope, making reproductions of the image affordable for poorer households, and in 1908 engraver Emery Walker began to sell full-colour photogravure prints of Hope, the first publicly available high-quality colour reproductions of the image. In 1922 the American film Hope, directed by Legaren à Hiller and starring Mary Astor and Ralph Faulkner, was based on the imagined origins of the painting. In it Joan, a fisherman's wife, is treated poorly by the rest of her village in her husband's absence, and has only the hope of his return to cling to.
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During a visit to the optical institutions and manufacturers which he represented commercially, Lindt secured a publisher for fifty of these pictures in Picturesque New Guinea (London, 1887) which, printed in a new autotype process, took full commercial advantage of the advent of half-tone printing. In the next year, he was honoured with appointment as a Fellow in the Royal Geographical Society. In 1888 The Argus praised the quality of this work: “It has often been a matter of discussion how far, or whether at all photography may be considered a fine art. By the work of J. W. Lindt this question is decided in a way that is a triumph for his profession.The Argus 27 November 1888 In 1889 Lindt moved his studio to 177 Collins Street and on 10 July 1889 he married his retoucher Catherine Elizabeth Cousens after the death, on 27 May 1888, of his first wife in giving birth to a stillborn.
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