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    In the 1600s, English wives banded together to try to prohibit coffee, because their husbands were spending too much time in coffee houses!

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A half-tone printing plate was patented by Frederic Ives

On the 11th April, 1893, Frederic Ives received a patent for his Phototype Printing Plate, which was able to produce half-tone printing.

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