Graphics began to play a major role in advertising. During this time the range of text size and styles became vast. Fat face was a new text invention, it was a Roman face whose contrast and weight were increased and strokes were made heavier. Antiques and san-serifs were also major text innovations during the Industrial Revolution. Printing presses began to change, Friedrich Koenig introduced a steam- powered printing press. Following Koenig's press were more steam-powered presses with more cylinders. The invention of the Lineotype machine replaced thousands of highly skilled typesetters. Although typesetters lost their jobs many more jobs were opening up. Phototypography spread words and pictures world wide, this began the age of mass communication. Photography started with camera obscuras, Joseph Niepce was the first to capture an image of nature. Many processes were experimented with until George Eastman introduced his Kodak camera in 1888. The New York Daily Graphic printed the first photograph with a full tonal range in a newspaper, it was printed from a halftone screen which broke the image into a series of minute dots. Minute dots allowed tone by smaller or lager dots. Eadweard Muybridge's series of photographs of a horses movement influenced the creation of motion- picture photography. The Industrial Revolution came to an end with the creation and publishing of kids books.
When I came across Louis Prang I became very interested because I recognized Prang as the brand of watercolors I used as a kid.
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