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Ralph Wedgwood (1766–1837) was an English inventor and member of the Wedgwood family of potters. His most notable invention was the earliest form of carbon paper, a method of creating duplicate paper documents, which he called "stylographic writer" or Noctograph. He obtained a patent for the invention in 1806.
Ralph Wedgwood obtained the first patent for carbon paper in 1806. [2] Carbon paper in its original form was paper coated on one side with a layer of a loosely bound dry ink or pigmented coating, bound with wax. The manufacture of carbon paper was formerly the largest consumer of montan wax. In 1954 the Columbia Ribbon & Carbon Manufacturing ...
The Wedgwood Baronetcy, of Etruria in the County of Stafford, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. [1] It was created in 1942 for Ralph Wedgwood, chairman of the World War II Railway Executive Committee. He was the great-great-grandson of the potter Josiah Wedgwood and the younger brother of Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood. [2]
Wedgwood works primarily on topics in ethics (including meta-ethics, practical reason, normative ethics, and the history of ethics) and epistemology. [3] He is the author of The Nature of Normativity (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007), and numerous papers on philosophy and ethics, including the oft-cited paper The Fundamental Argument for Same-Sex Marriage, [4] which argues for the legitimacy of ...
A noctograph is a writing instrument composed of a piece of paper whose underside is treated with printer's ink carbon paper and a metal board with clips to hold the paper in place and guidelines to make for straight writing in the dark.
Multipart stationery is paper that is blank, or preprinted as a form to be completed, comprising a stack of several copies, either on carbonless paper or plain paper, interleaved with carbon paper. The stationery may be bound into books with tear-out sheets to be filled in manually, continuous stationery (fanfold sheet or roll) for use in ...
Wedgwood was the eldest son of Clement Wedgwood and Emily Catherine Rendel, daughter of the engineer James Meadows Rendel. He was the great-great-grandson of the potter Josiah Wedgwood. His younger brothers were Sir Ralph Wedgwood and Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood. He was educated at Clifton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. [3]
Ralph Wedgwood may refer to: Ralph Wedgwood (inventor) (1766–1837), English inventor; Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet (1874–1956), British businessman;