Catalogus librorum a commissione aulica prohibitiorum, published by the von Trattner publishing house, Vienna 1765, title page
Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Leipzig
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1777
The Austrian index of banned books is itself banned.
Title page of the first edition of Georg Friedrich Wehrs’ ground-breaking standard work Vom Papier (About Paper), 1798Bayerische Staatsbibliothek digital1779
Georg Friedrich Wehrs publishes his written work Vom Papier und von den Schreibmassen.
Idyllic industrial scene on the bank of the Weißeritz river showing the Thode paper factory in Hainsberg. Image from Louis Oeser’s Album der sächsischen Industrie, 1856Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Leipzig1790
William Nichelson receives a patent for stencil printing, which leads to screen printing.1791
Claude Chappe launches the first semaphore telegraph lines between Paris and Lille.
Table of letters with the alphabet and numbers in Unger FrakturDeutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Leipzig1793
The first sample of the new Unger Fraktur font is released.
Specimen alphabet in Bodoni from Manuale Tipografico (1818)Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Leipzig1798
The Italian Giambattista Bodoni develops the Antiqua typeface named after him.
Medical illustration of the human eye. Lithograph from around 1890, from the fourth edition of Meyers Konversationslexikon, Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut 1885-1892Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Leipzig, Fotografie: Michael Setzpfandt1798
Alois Senefelder invents the flat stone printing process.
Portrait of Ulrich Bräker, oil, circa 1793; the original is in the Toggenburger Heimatmuseum in Lichtensteig.Toggenburger Heimatmuseum Lichtensteig / Wikimedia Commons1798
The Swiss author Ulrich Bräker dies in Toggenburg.1799
Frenchman Nicolas Louis Robert invents the paper machine for continuous paper.