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ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH (1764-1834)

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ACKERMANN, See also:RUDOLPH (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. 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. 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,. Ei'c. (monthly until 1828 when See also:forty volumes had appeared). See also:Rowlandson and other distinguished artists were See also:regular contributors. 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. 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. Indeed the introduction of See also:lighting by gas owed much to him. 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. He died at See also:Finchley, near London, on the 3oth of See also:March 1834.

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