Forty Centuries of Ink: Or, A chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink.Carvalho, David Nunes
History
Forty Centuries of Ink: Or, A chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink.
Carvalho, David Nunes
Ink
Courboulay, 1856, mixed the pulp and applied to
the paper salts of iodine or bromine.
Loubatieres, 1857, manufactured paper in layers,
any or all of which might be colored, or have impressions
or conspicuous marks for preventing forgery.
Herapath, 1858, saturated paper during or after its
manufacture with a solution of a ferrocyanide, a ferriccyanide,
or sulphocyanide of potassium, sodium, or
ammonium.
Seys and Brewer, 1858, applied aqueous solutions
of ferrocyanide of potassium or other salts, which
formed an indelible compound with the ferruginous
base of writing ink.
Sparre, 1859, utilized opaque matter, such as prussian
blue, white or red lead, insoluble in water and
stenciled on one layer of the paper web, forming a
regular pattern; this was then covered by a second
layer of paper.
Moss, 1859, invented a coloring matter prepared
from burned china or other clay, oxide of chromium
or sulphur, and combined it with the pulp.
Barclay, 1859, incorporated with the paper:
1. Soluble ferrocyanides, ferricyanides, and sulphocyanides
of various metals, by forming dibasic salts
with potassium, sodium, or ammonium, in conjunction
with vegetable, animal, or metallic coloring matters.
2. Salts of manganese, lead, or nickel not containing
ferrocyanogen.
3. Ferrocyanides, etc., of potassium, sodium, and
ammonium, in conjunction with insoluble salts of
manganese, lead, or nickel.
Hooper, 1860. Employed oxides of iron, either
alone or dissolved in an acid, and mixed with the
pulp.
Nissen, 1860. Treated paper with a preparation of
iron, together with ammonia, prussiate of potash and
chlorine, while in the pulp or being sized.
Middleton, 1860. Joined together one portion of a
bank note printed upon one sheet of thin paper and
the other part on another; the two were then cemented
together by india-rubber, gutta-percha, or other compound.
The interior printing could be seen through
its covering sheet, so that the whole device on the
note appeared on its face.
Olier, 1861. Employed several layers of paper of
various materials and colors; the middle one was
colored with a deleble dye, whose color was changed
by the application of chemicals to the outer layer.
Olier, 1863. Prepared a paper of three layers of
different thicknesses, the central one having an easily
removable color, and the external layers were charged
with silicate of magnesia or other salt.
Forster and Draper, 1864. Treating paper during
or after manufacture with artificial ultramarine and
Prussian blue or other metallic compound.
Hayward, 1864. Incorporated threads of fibrous
materials of different colors or characters into and
among the pulp.
Loewenberg, 1866. Introduced prussiate of potash
and oxalic acid or such other alkaline salts or acids
into the pulp, in order to indicate fraud in the removal
of cancellation stamps or written marks.
Casilear, 1868. Printed numbers on a fugitive
ground, tint or color in order to prevent alteration of
figures or numbers.
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