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Artist
Illustration
- Subject:
- Science & technology
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Navellier, Narcisse
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Wellcome Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Les merveilles de l'industrie, vol. 2
- Author(s):
- Figuier, Louis
- Publisher:
- Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, n.d. [1873-1877]
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
View of a workshop housing a wallpaper printing machine looking like a large wheel equipped with color troughs and through which a roll of paper is run (view detail here).
- A. Roll of paper to be printed.
- B. Printed paper running through the dryer.
- C. Return of the dry paper.
- D. Steam faucet for heating the dryer.
The caption reads in the original French: Machine à imprimer les papiers peints en 20 couleurs.
Keywords: 1870s, 19th century, black & white, Furne, industrial, Les merveilles de l'industrie, machine, printing, working
