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See also:RUDOLPH See also:ACKERMANN (1764-1834)
, Anglo-See also:German inventor and publisher, was See also:born on the loth of See also:April 1764 at See also:Schneeberg, in See also:Saxony
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He had been a saddler and See also:coach-builder in different German cities, See also:Paris and See also:London for ten years before, in 1795, he established a See also:print-See also:shop and See also:drawing-school in the Strand
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See also:Ackermann set up a lithographic See also:press, and applied it in 1817 to the See also:illustration of his Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions,
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Ei'c
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(monthly until 1828 when See also:forty volumes had appeared)
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See also:Rowlandson and other distinguished artists were See also:regular contributors
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He also introduced the See also:fashion of the once popular See also:English Annuals, beginning in 1825 with Forget-me-not; and he published many illustrated volumes of See also:topography and travel, The See also:Microcosm of London (3 vols., 18o8-1811), See also:Westminster See also:Abbey (2 vols., 1812), The See also:Rhine (1820), The See also:World in See also:Miniature (43 vols., 1821–1826), &c
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Ackermann was an enterprising See also:man ; he patented (18o?) a method for rendering See also:paper and See also:cloth waterproof, erected a factory at See also:Chelsea for the purpose and was one of the first to illuminate his own premises with See also:gas
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Indeed the introduction of See also:lighting by gas owed much to him
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After the See also:battle of See also:Leipzig Ackermann collected nearly a See also:quarter of a million See also:sterling for the German sufferers
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He died at See also:Finchley, near London, on the 3oth of See also: |
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