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Example sentences for "lithography"

Lexicographically close words:
lithographed; lithographer; lithographers; lithographic; lithographs; lithologic; lithological; lithos; lithosphere; lithotomy
  1. For subjects in lines or dots entirely free from half-tone, photo-lithography is more suitable for reproduction than Collotype, where price is a consideration.

  2. He, however, worked chiefly on paper with the bichromate mixed with albumen or gelatine, and attained results which were the first practical steps towards photo-lithography and carbon or pigment printing.

  3. Lithography gives a smooth, uniform and permanent impression on the paper, and permits of an indeterminate "run.

  4. While the initial costs of lithography are high, ranging from $25.

  5. The explanation for a map that is to be engraved or to be reproduced by lithography need only be sketched in to show general style and arrangement.

  6. Although limestone is one of the most common rocks, limestone of a quality suitable for use in lithography is found at only a few localities.

  7. This form of lithography is seldom used for Survey illustrations but was formerly much used and is well adapted to the reproduction of drawings of fossils, particularly of remains of dinosaurs and other types of large extinct animals.

  8. Then that covers lithography and every other possible process.

  9. Now, he is entirely mistaken about that, because the very things that are being imported and that he complains of are not made by lithography at all, but by another process.

  10. There are modern processes of photomechanical printing that have nothing at all to do with lithography, that are much cheaper than lithography, and that do all that lithography does.

  11. In 1838 Weld Taylor reproduced by lithography the beautiful portrait of "Boz" by S.

  12. She had been staggered by the revelation that he was definitely committed to the project of lithography and the new works.

  13. Hence her inimical attitude towards the project of the new works and the extension of lithography in Bursley.

  14. Instead of entering upon lithography in a manner bold, logical, and decisive, he had nervously and half-heartedly slithered into it.

  15. It was a joy to think that here was the sole lithography in Bursley, and that his own enterprise had started it.

  16. The black and gold sign that surmounted its blue roofs could be seen from the top of Acre Lane and half way along Shawport Lane, proclaiming the progress of lithography and steam-printing, and the name of Edwin Clayhanger.

  17. You see, if I'm to go in for lithography as it ought to be gone in for, I can't possibly stay at the shop.

  18. They had not quarrelled; but they had not made peace; and the open question of lithography and the new works still separated them.

  19. Photo-Lithography and kindred methods are either of little importance or will be referred to under Lithography.

  20. Photo-lithography is exactly the same as photo-zincography--process block-making.

  21. Several plates may be used, just as in lithography or coloured block printing, and these coloured plates wiped as I have been describing.

  22. The work of women and girls in lithography seems to be confined to the feeding of machines.

  23. The men employed in lithography look favourably on the employment of girls, because no girl attempts to rise into the higher grades and "pick up" the trade without apprenticeship.

  24. In its application to lithography the following are the only requisites for copperplate transfer printing.

  25. There are a vast number of details in connection with lithography and lithographic printing which are indisputably elementary in their character.

  26. The prejudice which has hitherto checked the progress of this branch of lithography was not altogether of an unreasonable character.

  27. There is one characteristic feature of the discovery of lithography for which Senefelder ought to receive the fullest credit.

  28. The simple elements of lithography may be very briefly described, and in this direction at least we must follow certain well-defined lines which may be regarded as well-worn ruts, the consideration of which offers little that is new.

  29. Half-tone photo-lithography is the reproduction of a design or copy which has in its composition gradations of tone in the form of flat tints.

  30. The essential features of photo-lithography are:-- 1.

  31. It has been again and again suggested that the blighting influences of Commercialism have robbed lithography of many of its traditional features and a few, at least, of its best and most artistic qualities as a reproductive art.

  32. In photo-lithography it is possible to make a print from a negative direct on to the plate (Chap.

  33. In detail they may, of course, be modified to meet the exigencies of peculiar conditions, which in lithography are frequently the controlling powers, and at all times are matters of vital importance.

  34. These have all been reproduced in colored lithography by the best artists of Paris.

  35. Among the art notices, we observe a brief criticism on the Gallery of Illustrious Americans, in which the lithography of the pictures is praised as well as the faces themselves.

  36. Lithography in England, although it may be from Ackerman's press, and is certainly a curiosity.

  37. The Duke of Orleans was no longer to figure in lithography as the fantastic Prince Rosolin; no longer were multitudes (in chalk) to shelter under the enormous shadow of M.

  38. Illustration: Initial Letter from The Cornhill] As for the art of wood engraving itself, we hope it will now have a future like that which the arts of lithography and etching are enjoying.

  39. The architectural papers also use, mainly, photo-lithography for reproducing the drawings which they print.

  40. La Lidia" is illustrated entirely by lithography and in colour; the designs, often full of go and life, are the work of D.

  41. But lithography in this country, as a method of illustrating books and papers, never can be said to have become very popular, though in France for years its employment was general.

  42. The broad principles of lithography consist, of course, in the strong adhesion of greasy substances to calcareous stone, the affinity of one greasy body for another, and the antipathy of such bodies to water.

  43. His experiments were crowned with success, and lithography naturally took its place amongst the great industrial arts of the world.

  44. Of the processes dealt with, photogravure lithography and collotype are those most generally used at the present day for the printing of plates or insets.

  45. This is characteristic of lithography and allied processes.

  46. Of these methods of printing, lithography is the outstanding example: it is a method of reproduction possessed of great possibilities, for by its employment a facsimile of any drawing can be obtained.

  47. The plates provide excellent examples of ink lithography by Laplante.

  48. Lithography is much used for the reproduction of coloured pictures and illustrations, the process being termed chromolithography.

  49. Lithography is cheaper than collotype; but if several illustrations are sent at the same time to be reproduced by collotype, the cost for each would be less than if sent separately.

  50. It does not happen often that a drawing or inscription can be made entirely without error, and it would be a great imperfection in lithography if these mistakes could not be corrected at once.

  51. The establishment of this spinnery had so important an effect on my fate as well as on the future of lithography that I must describe it here.

  52. There is no press as yet that is so perfect for lithography that it leaves nothing to be desired.

  53. They convinced themselves with many experiments that lithography was eminently suitable for the easy reproduction of many styles of drawing, and recommended the method to all their acquaintances.

  54. Indeed, he lost heavily in London and France, whereas, had we remained together, lithography might now be highly perfected in both these countries and produce no small wealth for its users.

  55. One may not declare that his contemporaries showed indifference to the invention of lithography to which his fortunate star led Herr Alois Senefelder, and to the improvements that he sought with thousands of experiments and restless labor.

  56. This invention will facilitate the introduction of lithography in all places, because one can make the stones himself.

  57. A kind of lithography by which the effect of a tinted drawing is produced, as if made with India ink.

  58. Defn: A branch of lithography in which impressions from printers' types are transferred to stone for reproduction.

  59. Defn: To trace on stone by the process of lithography so as to transfer the design to paper by printing; as, to lithograph a design; to lithograph a painting.

  60. After the introduction of lithography many fans were produced by means of this process, invented by Aloys Senefelder of Munich about 1798; all lithographed fans must therefore be of a subsequent date to this.

  61. Lithography has been employed during the whole of the nineteenth century for the decoration of fans, and is largely in use at the present time.

  62. Do you know what lithography is, lithographing?

  63. Lithography is--microdot printing is not.

  64. Chromo-lithography (printing in colors from stone) was experimented on by the great inventor.

  65. Nothing really new except photo-lithography has been added to this charming art since that time; improvement only by manual skill and by chemical progress, can be claimed by others.

  66. By this act lithography became an established fact.

  67. The art preservative of all arts” is not the art of lithography nor of copper-plate.

  68. The theory of lithography is based upon the repulsion between grease and water.

  69. Lithography is the most scientific and the most flexible of all methods of printing.

  70. In lithography the design to be printed, which may be engraved on stone or copper, or written with pen on paper, is transferred by a greasy ink upon the smooth surface of a stone of peculiar fineness and firmness.

  71. The arts of lithography and copper-plate are useful and beautiful methods of printing, but they do not make books and newspapers.

  72. It has not been made obsolete by lithography or photography, nor by any other invention of our time.

  73. These advantages are counterbalanced by one great defect: lithography is not a quick method of printing.


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