1996 32c Pioneers of Communication

 

Issue Date: February 22, 1996
City: New York, NY
Stamp Issue Quantity: 23,292,500
Printed By: Ashton-Potter USA
Printing Method: Lithographed
Perforations: 11.1 x 11
Color: Multicolored

 

Issued as a block of four, these stamps honor the achievements of four communication pioneers. Each stamp combines a portrait of the inventor with an image of his invention: Eadweard Muybridge with a series of photographs taken by his zoopraxiscope; Ottmar Mergenthaler with a linotype machine; Frederic Ives with an enlarged halftone photogravure image; and William Dickson with motion picture images taken from his work with Thomas Edison.