Johann Alois Senefelder was a German actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography in the 1790s. The source lead gives no further engineering detail, so this entry records only that credited invention. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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who invented the printing technique of lithography in the 1790s
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It was invented in 1796 by the German author and actor Alois Senefelder and was initially used mostly for musical scores and maps.
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