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Felkl, Jan
1817-1887
In 1855 Jan Felkl offered an illustrated prospectus for globes in six
various sizes. Within the next 20 years, Felkl rose to be the largest
globe manufacturer within the Austro-Hungarian market, producing
terrestrial and celestial globes in 17 languages, as well as lunar
globes, planetaria and telluria.
Felkl's early globes were produced by engraving and hand coloring
the gores. Increase in production was made possible with the development
of lithography as of 1873. Felkl founded a "geographic lithographic
institute" in Prague to produce globe gores and maps. Best
known author of the German Felkl globes was the Leipzig cartographer
Otto Delitsch, who developed the idea of brown color tone graduation
of height of mountain ranges.
In 1870, Felkl moved his factory from Prague to Roztok and took
his youngest son Christoph Zikmund as partner in his firm, renamed
Felkl & Son (1875- 1950) They employed up to 40 people and opened branches
in Prague and Vienna. After the death of Jan Felkl in 1887, the
firm was continued by the Felkl family until 1950.
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