Archive for January, 2006
Invention Timeline: Jon Calvin Moss, American Inventor of Photo Engraving Processes
Monday, January 30th, 2006b. January 5, 1838 and d. ?
American inventor of processes in photo-engraving. He obtained relief plates from which printed impressions could be made. He is known as the inventor of what is called the “Moss Processes.”
If you desire a noble work of art,
Be it a poem, picture, statue, song,
To whom do you in rust it? To the best?
The single one selected from the mass?
Or to a hundred of a lower grade?
Or thousands or ten thousands lower still?
Secure that the majority is right
And has the highest art, the deflest skill.
—Voz populi, Vox dei: 146 Blackwood’s Magazine, 879





