Matter is often printed from electrotype plates which are prepared as follows.
One of the most usual of these is that of making an electrotype.
The whole art of electrotype consists in applying the metals thus released from their solutions to artistic or useful purposes.
For copying seals and small coins, impressions in ordinary sealing-wax may be used as electrotype moulds.
Both cast and electrotype are in the National Portrait Gallery.
The second method of making a matrix is by electrotype process.
I have an electrotype copy from such a dish, the original of which is in Manchester.
The brass and silver parts are thickly gilt by the electrotype process, so as to prevent their being acted upon by the salt water.
No sooner is electrotype invented, than the principal seat of the manufacture is established at Birmingham.
Platinum battery plates are covered with a pulverulent deposit of platinum by means of the electrotype.
