It is this feature more than any other that allows the calligraphic line to be so fluid and expressive. The ink employed in calligraphy is usually made from lampblack, a sooty residue created by ...

Several types of whites were found, all metallic and including lead white (found in the majority of paintings), tin white, and zinc white. Lampblack was the only black identified. Brilliant yellow, ...

In this method an "inert" foreign particle such as lampblack is deposited on the ciliated surface and the speed of propagation observed. 20 Assuming the environmental humidity and heat to be ...

With this india-rubber solution is mixed whiting, sulphur, litharge, or white lead, calcined magnesia, lampblack, and clay, in the following proportions : Four pounds of rubber, two pounds of ...

It took two of Edison’s staffers 10 hours to pump the air out of a bulb that used a filament made of cardboard, coated in lampblack and baked to “carbonize” it. The result lasted for 13 and ...