Rudolph Appel (1816 in

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– 1898 in

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) was a

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printer and business man who played a major role in the development of

anastatic lithography Anastatic lithography is a method of printing developed by 1840 in Erfurt. The technique provided a means for facsimile reproduction, which was developed and promoted by Werner and William Siemens. The reproduction of the four pages of the 25 Se ...

, a brand name that referred to already existing transfer lithography processes, and

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in the mid-nineteenth century. After his business went bankrupt in 1858, he relinquished his anastatic lithography license to Samuel Cowell, and moved to

where he was employed by the

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for the next thirty-five years.

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{{reflist 1816 births 1898 deaths German printers Businesspeople from the Kingdom of Prussia