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2 unusual facts about René Alphonse Higonnet


René Alphonse Higonnet

He was awarded a scholarship by the Institute of International Education to attend Carleton College in 1922 where he spent one year and then attended the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

René Alphonse Higonnet (April 5, 1902 – October 13, 1983) was a French-born engineer and inventor who co-developed the phototypesetting process with Louis Moyroud, which allows text and images to be printed on paper using a photoengraving process, a method that made the traditional publishing method of hot metal typesetting obsolete.



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