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The process of printing an image by drawing the image with a water-repellent material onto a hard, flat surface (typically metal), then copying the surface by applying water and ink (or the equivalent) to it and pressing another material against it.

The art of lithography greatly affected the production of maps.

Copperengraving, for which it was formerly noted, is no longer carried on; but printing, lithography and publishing have acquired a considerable development, one of the best-known Continental newspapers being the Allgemeine Zeitung or Augsburg Gazette.

For the nature and method of preparing these surfaces see respectively Engraving (and allied articles), Lithography and Typography.

Lithography, which was invented at Munich at the end of the 18th century, is extensively practised here.

The falls in the river afford motive power to the cloth and cotton mills (spinning and weaving)-the staple industries-and to factories for sugar, paper, lithography, tobacco and carpets, joinery works and breweries.

The processes of zincography and of algraphy (aluminium printing) are essentially the same as lithography.

Its inhabitants are employed in the manufacture of cloth, starch and machinery, in ironfounding and lithography.

The strategy involved development of moving mask deep X-ray lithography to fabricate an array of channels with inclined channel sidewalls.

Evolution, Mackenzie's series of etchings, aquatints and stone lithography is his first significant foray into this medium.

In 1868 at Kyelang he published by lithography A Short Practical Grammar of the Tibetan Language, with special reference to the spoken dialects, and the following year a Romanized Tibetan and English Dictionary.

This combines MBE growth, focused ion beam lithography, and hydrogen radical cleaning within one complete ultra high vacuum system.

Do some kind of optical lithography - like how you make PCBs?

This elastomeric " stamp " can then be used for soft lithography.

Complex 3D structures can be built directly without the need for conventional lithography.

Giclees are superior to traditional lithography in several ways.

Lovely early space lithography on the box and playing board.

Structures are fabricated by making use of our new nanofabrication facility based around focused ion-beam and electron-beam lithography.

Topographical surveys are gradually extending, and explorers of recent years are better trained for their work than they were a generation ago, whilst technical processes of recent invention - such as lithography, photography and heliogravure - facilitate or expedite the completion of his task.

The ordinary bazar copies of the poem, repeatedly reproduced by lithography, teem with interpolations and variations from the poet's language.

An active trade, fostered by abundant railway communications, is combined with manufactures of iron and steel wares, paper, chemicals, vinegar, physical and optical instruments, besides artistic printing and lithography.

As a substitute for Solenhofen stone it is used in a modified form of lithography, which can be performed on rotary printingmachines at a high speed.

It has particular expertise in screen, flexographic (soft lithography ), offset, gravure and pad printing.

The first packs were printed by direct lithography with images transferred by hand onto stone.

Chen's method describes how to make a " master " or mold of a chip, using electron beam lithography.

Other traditional and modern printmaking techniques include lithography, silk-screening, and etching.

In the 1880's another method of printing called lithography was developed.

Thermography is substantially faster than other techniques used to achieve raised lettering such as engraving or lithography.

The chief industries are cotton spinning, weaving, bleaching, dyeing, printing, machine building and lithography, and there is an active trade in wine, beer and cheese.

The industries embrace engine-building, the manufacture of railway carriages a11d plant, scientific instruments, porcelain, tobacco and cigars, lithography, jute-spinning, iron-founding, brewing and gardening.

In Mahommedan countries lithography alone is employed.