Blueprint Equipment was invented in 1842 (19th Century) by John Herschel. This photo was taken of land surveyors inspecting their blueprints in Park Slope, Brooklyn in 1865. The Diazo printers came along in the 1940’s (20th Century). Pen Plotters came in the 1980’s and the digital wide format printers which could digitally produce Xerographic black…
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