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Last Name Osborne

Given Name John Walter

alt. Names J. W. O. ;

Marriage Ann (c. 1831-1xxx)

Children

Year born 1828 in Ireland

Year died 1902

Place of death Palo Alto, California, USA

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education training as engineer

Country of Activity Australia

Worked for photolithographs in the Survey Department ;

Patronage photolithographer in the Survey Dept., Melbourne; Ordnance Survey of Great Britain & Ireland; Council of the Royal Society of Victoria (elected 1860);

Collaborators

Techniques map-making ;

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Archival sources http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/osborne-john-walter-4343 ;

Published sources Jean Gittins in Australian Dictionary of Biography 5 (1974) ; S. Kenyon, ‘Photo-lithography—a Victorian invention’, Victorian Historical Magazine 11 (1926-28); London Photographic Journal, April 1860; Costa & Jardim: 41; J.Waterhouse: Application of Photography in the Reproduction 1878; Nadeau ;

other Born in Ireland, migrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1852, where he joined the Magnetic Survey Dept in 1858; since 1862 active mainly in the USA.

Inventor of zincography in 1859, a planographic printing from zinc plates, analogous to photolithography,

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