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FIFTY years ago illustrations for books or periodicals were printed either from en-graved wood blocks, steel plates, or were lithographs. In the earliest numbers of NATURE examples may be seen of the first method—in that of January 20, 1870, we find a diagram of a section of the tube by which it was proposed to construct the Channel tunnel; and in that of February 17 an illustration of the Newall telescope at Gateshead: these could scarcely be bettered now. The map illustrating the main drainage of London, in the issue of March 31, is an example of the inadequacy of wood for such a purpose.
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WALKER, E. Reproduction of Illustrations, 1869–1919. Nature 104, 252–253 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104252a0
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