Invention and Discovery: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches

THE DISCOVERY OF LITHOGRAPHY.

The invention, or more properly the discovery, of lithography, claims a high rank among those of the present age, on account of its extensive usefulness. The honour of the invention belongs to Alois Sennefelder, originally a performer at the Theatre Royal of Munich. He had conceived the idea of etching on stone instead of on copper, and was proceeding to make the experiment, when an accidental discovery gave a more beneficial turn to his speculations. The discovery, which was that of the lithographic art, has been thus narrated by Sennefelder himself:—

"I had just succeeded, in my little laboratory, in polishing a stone plate, which I intended to cover with etching ground, when my mother entered the room, and desired me to write her a bill for the washerwoman, who was waiting for the linen. I happened not to have even the smallest slip of paper at hand, as my little stock of paper had been entirely exhausted by taking proof impressions from the stones; nor was there even a drop of ink in the ink-stand. As the matter would not admit of delay, and we had nobody in the house to send for a supply of the deficient materials, I resolved to write the list with my ink prepared with wax, soap, and lamp-black, on the stone which I had just polished, and from which I could copy it at leisure."

"Some time after this, I was going to wipe this writing from the stone, when the idea, all at once, struck me to try what would be the effect of such a writing with my prepared ink if I were to bite it in the stone with aquafortis; and whether, perhaps, it might not be possible to apply printing ink to it in the same way as to wood engravings, and to take impressions from it." Sennefelder surrounded the stone with a border of wax, and applied aquafortis, by which in a few minutes the writing was raised. Printing ink was then applied with a common printer's ball, impressions were taken off, and the practicability of the important art of lithography thus was fully established.

The first application of the art to purposes of usefulness unconnected with the fine arts, was made by the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War, for the purpose of rapidly multiplying copies of general orders, instructions, etc., and accompanying them with sketches of positions. It has since been introduced into the public offices of almost every state in Europe; and its uses in every department of commercial, social, and artistic activity are innumerable.

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I.	VII.
WISDOM, WIT, AND ALLEGORY.	THE MIRROR OF CHARACTER.
Selected from 'The Spectator.'	SELECTED FROM THE WRITINGS OF
	OVERBURY, EARLE, AND BUTLER.
II.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN:	VIII.
A Biography.	MEN OF HISTORY.
	By Eminent Writers.
III.
THE WORLD'S WAY:	IX.
Lays of Life and Labour.	OLD WORLD WORTHIES;
	Or, Classical Biography.
IV.	SELECTED FROM
TRAVELS IN AFRICA.	PLUTARCH'S LIVES.
The LIFE and TRAVELS of
MUNGO PARK.
With a Supplementary Chapter,	X.
detailing the results of recent	THE MAN OF BUSINESS
Discovery in Africa.	Considered in Six Aspects.
	A Book for Young Men.
V.
WALLACE,	XI.
THE HERO OF SCOTLAND:	WOMEN OF HISTORY.
A Biography.	By Eminent Writers.
By James Paterson.
	XII.
VI.	The IMPROVEMENT of the MIND.
EPOCH MEN,	By Isaac Watts.
And the Results of their
Lives.
By Samuel Neil.

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I.	V.
Memorable Wars of Scotland.	Home Heroines:
BY	Tales for Girls.
Patrick Fraser Tytler, F.R.S.E.,	By T. S. Arthur.
Author of 'History of Scotland,'
etc.	VI.
	Lessons from Women's Lives.
	By Sarah J. Hale.
II.
Seeing the World:	VII.
A Young Sailor's Own Story.	The Roseville Family:
By Charles Nordhoff.	An Historical Tale of the
	Eighteenth Century.
	By Mrs. A. S. Orr.
III.
The Martyr Missionary:	VIII.
Five Years in China.	Leah:
By Rev. Charles P. Bush, M.A.	A Tale of Ancient Palestine.
	By Mrs. A. S. Orr.


IV.	IX.
My New Home:	Champions of the Reformation.
A Woman's Diary.	The Stories of Their Lives.

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I.	VI.
The Far North.	A Father's Legacy to his
	Daughters; etc.
II.
The Young Men of the Bible.	VII.
	Great Men of European History.
III.
The Blade and the Ear.	VIII.
	Mountain Patriots:
IV.
Monarchs of Ocean.	IX.
	Labours of Love:
V.	A Tale for the Young.
Life's Crosses, and How to
Meet them.	X.
	Mossdale:
	A Tale for the Young.

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I.	VI.
The Vicar of Wakefield.	The Boy's Own Workshop.
Poems and Essays.	By Jacob Abbott.
By Oliver Goldsmith.
	VII.
II.	The Life and Adventures of
Æsop's Fables,	Robinson Crusoe.
With Instructive Applications.
By Dr. Croxall.	VIII.
	The History of Sandford
III.	and Merton.
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
	IX.
IV.	Evenings at Home;
The Young Man-of-War's	Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened.
Man.
A Boy's Voyage round the World.	X.
	Unexpected Pleasures.
V.	By Mrs. George Cupples, Author
The Treasury of Anecdote:	of 'The Little Captain,' etc.
Moral and Religious.

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I.	V.
Bible Blessings.	Lessons from Rose Hill.
By Rev. Richard Newton.
	VI.
II.	Great and Good Women.
One Hour a Week:
Fifty-two Bible Lessons for the	VII.
Young.	At Home and Abroad.


III.	VIII.
The Best Things.	The Kind Governess.
By Rev. Richard Newton.
	IX.
IV.	Christmas at the Beacon:
Grace Harvey and her	A Tale for the Young.
Cousins.

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I.	VII.
Four Little People and their	The Perils of Greatness.
Friends.
	VIII.
II.	Little Crowns, and How to
Elizabeth;	Win Them.
Or, The Exiles of Siberia.
	IX.
III.	Great Riches.
Paul and Virginia.
	X.
IV.	The Right Way, and
Little Threads.	the Contrast.


V.	XI.
Benjamin Franklin.	The Daisy's First Winter.


VI.	XII.
Barton Todd.	The Man of the Mountain.

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I.	VII.
Pearls for Little People.	Story Pictures from the Bible.


II.	VIII.
Great Lessons for	The Tables of Stone.
Little People.
	IX.
III.	Ways of Doing Good.
Reason in Rhyme.
	X.
IV.	Stories about our Dogs.
Æsop's Little Fable Book.
	XI.
V.	The Red-Winged Goose.
Grapes from the Great Vine.
	XII.
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Across the River: Twelve Views of Heaven. By Norman Macleod, D.D.; R. W. Hamilton, D.D.; Robert S. Candlish, D.D.; James Hamilton, D.D.; etc. etc. etc.

'A more charming little work has rarely fallen under our notice, or one that will more faithfully direct the steps to that better land it should be the aim of all to seek.'—Bell's Messenger.

II.

Emblems of Jesus; or, Illustrations of Emmanuel's Character and Work.

III.

Life Thoughts of Eminent Christians.

IV.

Comfort for the Desponding; or, Words to Soothe and Cheer Troubled Hearts.

The Chastening of Love; or, Words of Consolation to the Christian Mourner. By Joseph Parker, D.D., Manchester.

VI.

The Cedar Christian. By the Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler.

VII.

Consolation for Christian Mothers bereaved of Little Children. By a Friend of Mourners.

VIII.

The Orphan; or, Words of Comfort for the Fatherless and Motherless.

IX.

Gladdening Streams; or, The Waters of the Sanctuary. A Book for Fragments of Time on each Lord's Day of the Year.

Spirit of the Old Divines.

XI.

Choice Gleanings from Sacred Writers.

XII.

Direction in Prayer. By Peter Grant, D.D., Author of 'Emblems of Jesus,' etc.

XIII.

Scripture Imagery. By Peter Grant, D.D., Author of 'Emblems of Jesus,' etc.

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I.
Foolscap 8vo, handsomely bound in cloth extra, antique,
price 2s. 6d.,
CHRISTIAN COMFORT.
By the Author of 'EMBLEMS OF JESUS.'

II.
By the same Author, uniform in style and price,
LIGHT ON THE GRAVE.

III.
Uniform in style and price,
GLIMPSES OF THE CELESTIAL CITY,
AND GUIDE TO THE INHERITANCE.
With Introduction by the
REV. JOHN MACFARLANE, LL.D.,
CLAPHAM, LONDON.

Crown 4to, cloth extra, gilt edges, price 6s.,
THE NATIONAL MELODIST.
Two Hundred Standard Songs, with Symphonies and Accompaniments
for the Pianoforte.
Edited by J. C. Kieser.

Demy 4to, cloth extra, gilt edges, price 3s. 6d.,
THE SCOTTISH MELODIST.
Forty-Eight Scottish Songs and Ballads, with Symphonies and
Accompaniments for the Pianoforte.
Edited by J. C. Kieser.

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