Lithography ( from Greek λίθος-lithos, ' stone ' + γράφειν-graphein, ' to write ') is a method for printing using a stone ( lithographic limestone ) or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface.

Lithography originally used an image drawn ( etched ) into a coating of wax or an oily substance applied to a plate of lithographic stone as the medium to transfer ink to a blank paper sheet, and so produce a printed page.

Lithography uses simple chemical processes to create an image.

Lithography was invented by Alois Senefelder in Bohemia in 1796.

Lithography works because of the mutual repulsion of oil and water.

" Lithography, or printing from soft stone, largely took the place of engraving in the production of English commercial maps after about 1852.

* The Invention of Lithography, Aloys Senefelder, ( Eng.

* A brief historic overview of Lithography.

* Philadelphia on Stone: The First Fifty Years of Commercial Lithography in Philadelphia.

Lithography in MEMS context is typically the transfer of a pattern into a photosensitive material by selective exposure to a radiation source such as light.

Lithography is a technique invented in 1798 by Alois Senefelder and based on the chemical repulsion of oil and water.

Lithography is known for its ability to capture fine gradations in shading and very small detail.

This reproduction of a 1900 William H. West ( entertainer ) | William H. West minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Lithography | Litho Co., shows the transformation from white to " black ".

It was renamed London County Council School of Photo-Engraving and Lithography.

Toned Lithography | lithograph by A. E.

An 1842 Lithography work by James Rattray showing a Persian people | Persian ( Qizilbash ) woman in Afghanistan with a burqa behind her.

Mephistopheles flying over Wittenberg, in a Lithography | lithograph by Eugène Delacroix.

Lithography and wood-cutting were also used by him to create pictures.

* Pendleton's Lithography, Boston, established by William S. Pendleton ( 1795-1879 ) and John B. Pendleton ( 1798-1866 )

* Scanning Probe Lithography, a direct contact method of lithography.

Lane acquired such ‘ lessons ’ by way of his employment at Pendleton's Lithography shop in Boston, which lasted from 1832 to 1847.

Alfred Nobel's death mask, at the Nobel museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

* Canova's death mask at Princeton

Euphemisms are used for dissimulation, to refer to taboo topics ( such as disability, sex, or death ) in a polite way, and to mask profanity.

The success of the work bears comparison with his achievements in opera, but his comparative silence during the period from 1832 to his death in 1868 makes his biography appear almost like the narrative of two lives — the life of swift triumph and the long life of seclusion, of which biographers give us pictures in stories of the composer's cynical wit, his speculations in fish culture, his mask of humility and indifference.

Bronze casts made in 1990 from plaster death mask and plaster cards of his hands clearly show a normal right hand and a withered left hand.

Shortly before his death and despite needing an oxygen mask to breathe, he recorded his voice to appear in The Godfather: The Game, once again as Don Vito Corleone.

Postage stamp ( 1943 ) features the death mask of Heydrich

Attempts to draw a confession that she had betrayed her dancer husband and had collaborated with the Nazis led to the use of a device employing a death mask of the dead patriot, which literally frightens her to death.

A plaster death mask was also made.

Recently, Viz actually manufactured some of these items for real and sold them, including a china plate depicting " The Life of Christ ... In Cats ", featuring tacky pictures of a cat in various stages of Jesus's life, and the Elvis Presley Dambusters Clock Plate of Tutankhamen, a clock featuring Elvis in the style of Tutankhamun's death mask in addition to Avro Lancaster bomber planes.

Upon discovering a human skull beneath a gold death mask in one of the tombs, he declared: " I have gazed upon the face of Agamemnon ".

After death, he was represented at his own funeral, and those of his later descendants, by a hired actor who wore his death mask ( imago ) and was clad in the all-purple, gold-embroidered triumphal toga picta (" painted " toga ).

John Dillingers's death mask.

to a ghoulish bigness looks like the mask of death.

Sherman's death mask

André Breton's " death " mask by: en: René Iché | René Iché, 1929 – 1930

A portrait drawing by Cornelius Varley with his patent graphic telescope ( Sheffield Museums & Galleries ) was compared with his death mask ( National Portrait Gallery, London ) by Kelly Freeman at Dundee University 2009 – 10 to ascertain whether it really depicts Turner ( www. faceofturner. com ).

Garbo also commissioned a death mask of Murnau, which she kept on her desk during her years in Hollywood.

* A death mask of Oliver Cromwell

He helped construct the death mask of U. S. President William McKinley, who was assassinated in Buffalo in 1901.

In panic, he ripped off his mask, thus inhaling a large amount of phosgene gas which resulted in his death 72 hours later.

This spin-off was not based on the novel or the original film, as its only connection with the original is the death of Patrick Bateman ( played by Michael Kremko wearing a face mask ), briefly shown in a flashback.

A cast of Tone's death mask is open to public viewing in the vaults of St. Michan's Church, Dublin.