Joseph Niepce, Photo etching of an engraving of Cardinal Georges D' Amboise, 1827.
The first steam-powered cylinder press, Friedrich Koenig, 1814
Title page from A specimen of Printing Types, William Caslon and William Caslon 2, 1764
Sarah Bernhardt,F.T Nadar, 1859
-William Caslon was said to be the grandfather of the new typeface revolution
-Darius wells experiemnted with hand carved wooden types, in 1827 invented a lateral router that enabled economical mass manufacture of wood types for displaying prints
-Charles Stanhope produced a printing press that was completely out of cast iron
-John walter 2 commisioned Fedrich Koenig to build a double cylinder steampowered press, capable of printing 1,100 impressions an hour
-The rapid development of the linotype replaced thousands of highly skilled hand-type setters while also creating new jobs
-Joseph Niepce the first frenchman who first produced a photographic image, Louis Jacques Daguerre perfeccted the process.
-John Calvin Moss creaded a feasible photoengraving method
-As the victorian era progressed, the ornate and elaborate was a major influence on typography, Chromolithology was a major inspiration.
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