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Show A LUCKY ACCIDENT. How the Art of Printing from Stone "Whs Discovered. One of the greatest discoveries ever made was the result of pure accident. It was in the year 170G. The citizens of Munich had just witnessed the first performance of Mozart's opera, "Don Juan." The theater was deserted by all except one man, Alois Sennefelder, who, after making a round of inspection inspec-tion in the building to see that there was no danger of fire, went to his room to stamp the tickets of admission for the following day. When he entered his room he had three things in his hand a polished whetstone, which he had bought for sharpening his razor; a ticket-stamp, still moistened with printing ink, and a check on the treasurer treas-urer of the theater for his weekly salary. As he placed the latler on the table a gust of wind swept it high up in his room, and then deposited it in a basin of water. Sennefelder dried the paper as well as he could, and then weighted it down with the whetstone, whet-stone, upon which he had carelessly placed the printing stamp. When he returned to his room the following morning, he was astonished at seeing the letters printed upon the dampened dampen-ed paper. A thought came to him. He wondered whether by some such means he could not simplify his work of continually con-tinually copying the songs of the chorus. He went out and purchased a large stone, commenced making experiments, ex-periments, and. as we all know, finally final-ly di.-coverpd thp art of printing from si sue lithography. |