Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf
French inventor
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Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf was a Franco-German inventor who founded the famous Jouy-en-Josas factory in France in 1760. This factory was renowned for producing "toile de Jouy," a type of cotton or linen fabric printed with designs of landscapes and figures. Oberkampf's innovation involved using copperplates for printing, a technique that had been introduced in England earlier. The term "toile de Jouy" is now often used more broadly to describe similar printed cottons produced in England and other French factories.1
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