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
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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
Jameson, 1870. Printed on paper, designs with
ferrocyanide of potassium and then soaked the paper
when dry in a solution of oxalic acid in alcohol.
Duthie, 1872. Made a ground work of writing ink
of different colors by any known means of pen ruling.
Syms, 1876. Produced graduated colored stains,
which were made to partially penetrate and spread in
the pulp web.
Van Nuys, 1878. Colored the Paper with a pigment
and then printed designs with a soluble sulphide.
Casilear, 1878. United two distinctive colored
papers, one a fugitive and the other a permanent
color.
Hendrichs, 1879. Dipped ordinary paper in an
aqueous solution of sulphate of copper and carbonate
of ammonia and then added alkaline solutions of
cochineal or equivalent coloring matter.
Nowlan, 1884. Backed the ordinary chemical paper
with a thin sheet of waterproof paper.
Menzies, 1884. Introduced iodide and iodate of
potassium or their equivalents into paper.
Clapp, 1884. Saturated paper with gallo-tanic acid,
but the ink used on this paper contained ferri-sesquichloride
or other similar preparation of iron.
Hill, 1885. Introduced into paper, ferrocyanide of
manganese and hydrated peroxide of iron.
Schreiber, 1885. Colored paper material with indigo
and with a subsequent treatment of chromates
soluble only in alcohol.
Schreiber, 1885. Treated finished paper with ferric-
oxide salts and with ferrocyanides insoluble in water
but soluble in acids.
Schlumberger, 1890. Impregnated white paper with
a resinated ferrous salt, a resin compound of plumbic
ferrocyanide, and a resin compound of ferrocyanide
of manganese in combination with a salt of molybdenum
and a resin compound of zinc sulphide.
Schlumberger, 1893. Dyed first the splash fibers
and mixed them with the paper pulp. Second. He also
treated portions of the surface with an alkali, so as to
form lines or characters thereon, then immersed the
same in a weak acid, in order to produce water-mark
lines.
Carvalho, 1894. 1. Charged the paper with bismuth
iodide and sodium iodide. 2. Charged the paper with
a bismuth salt and iodide of soda in combination with
primulin, congo red or other pigment. 3. Charged the
paper with a benzidine dye and an alkaline iodide.
1895. Applied a compound, sensitive to ink erasing
chemicals, AFTER the writing has been placed on the
paper.
Hoskins and Weis, 1895, a safety paper having
added thereto a soluble ferrocyanide and a per-salt of
iron insoluble in water but decomposable by a weak
acid in the presence of a soluble ferrocyanide, as and
for the purpose described. (2) A safety paper having
added thereto a ferrocyanide soluble in water, a
per-salt of iron insoluble in water but easily decomposed
by weak acids in the presence of a ferrocyanide
soluble in water, and a salt of manganese easily decomposed
by alkalis or bleaching agents, substantially
as described.
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