The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1845-03-07
STARTLING INVENTION.

Some Of the English papers aunounc
that process has been discovered by ~hicI
eugravIngs, newspapers, plciufes, bank note
&c, &C., can be copied with such accufa
cy that the incest scrutiny Of The mos. CON
potent ensraver. PRIMER, artist or banker
clerk can detect no difference between th
original, with which they are conyefsant
and The copies. II ia said that 10 this wa,
bank bills. checks, and indeed any thing t.
which The process is applicable may be mui
iip!ied indefinitely. The pune &C The in
senloT ia not men,ioned, hut he Is said Il
! be an English ensrayer. A correspondent
Of publishing house ia This city declare
that he has seen a page Of French news
paper Duplicated ia this way in ten minutes
and the London Ar Union has published
q coo or s 900 copies Of prin, Of the sa
vior, taken by This process, and i: ia said
lha; there is no more difference bslweeo he
copies end the original than between Two
Impressions taken from the same plate. Il
;iis be iruo, and the invention be made pub
lie, i, will reyolufionze The whole system OF
business. All evidences of deb. on paper,
all receipts. 10 short all Of every species OF
written or printed ducumen, connected with
pecunlary transactions " i'll lie vslueless and
The detection Of forgery by comparison
si,h the original. impossible. The electro.
type process, as regards ehgrasings, has al.
ready effected results something similar TO
those claimed for this new inyea,ion; bu, 1t
has been found impossible 10 mpat. Iba,
sharpness TO the lines OF the eectro'ypc,
which sproduced by The graver, and access
must be had to the original plate in order TO
obtain the copy. The inventor Of this new
plan of reduplca,ion, however processes to
produce his fac SMILES from the impressions
alone, and to multiply the most elaborate en-.
cravings without having seen the plates.
A correspondent Of the National intelli
genceI doubts the story Of the invention !;
and as reason for bis doubts relates the fol.
lowing, as parallel case "" A great excite.
men. was produced few days ego in Eu.
rope, particularly among artists, upon The
announcement iha, method had been dis.
covered oftsrsierriug or copying oil paint.
iags With exactness, and without iojory 10
the original. The artist who was SO for,u
nate us TO discover the process, in proof of
tie certainty. called for several of the mas
ter.peces Of painting belonging TO public
gallery, and in few hours he produced CO
pies so resembling the original paintings
as 10 puzzle even the rroprie.ors to decide
" hich we're the originals. The proof sas
considered as positive, and no person ever
had access TO the paintings Tor any purpose,
and the copies we're produced in few hours.
The secret was maintained cor long time,
but at last il was discovered upon his own
confession, that ii was all q trick. lie had
been in The habit Of visiting the gallery from
lay 10 day, and each DAY took away upon
hat mysterious canvass OF The mind small
portion Of the painting he wished 10 copy,
InlI' he had, in this patient manner, compile
ed several pieces. II vas an extraordina.
y discovery as long as the secret was kept,
nd We think we have right TO regard the
lis, overy of the arts; with skeptic'sm as
org as he keeps the secret"