electrotype
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a facsimile, for use in printing, of a block of type, an engraving, or the like, consisting of a thin copper or nickel shell deposited by electrolytic action in a wax, lead, or plastic mold of the original and backed with lead alloy.
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Sarah Awad's bold, weighty "Instruments of Culture" paintings are based on scenes in the cast courts in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London — the galleries that house the V&A's plaster-cast and electrotype reproductions.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2011
This second novel by a young "proletarian" whose Union Square won him a Guggenheim Fellowship tells of workers and bosses in an electrotype foundry.
From Time Magazine Archive
An electrotype and stereotype mat service for national advertising in country papers is another important Western Newspaper Union activity.
From Time Magazine Archive
This curved electrotype plate, being examined before it is fitted on one of the presses, is several steps removed from the linotype.
From Time Magazine Archive
In modern practice more than twenty-five different operations are necessary to make a finished electrotype ready for the press.
From From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 by H. C. Forster
As most book forms are electrotyped for flat-bed presses, and as it requires but little additional expense to curve the plates, this one item is not much of an obstacle to overcome.
From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Frederick H. Hitchcock
The American Tract Society had also electrotyped and printed several works for the mission, which were admired for their beauty, and were furnished more cheaply than they could have been prepared in Constantinople.
From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson
Here he remained four years, devoting the latter half of that time to a revision of the Syriac New Testament, preparatory to its being electrotyped and printed in pocket form by the American Bible Society.
From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson
All rights reserved Published April, 1920 Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co.,
From Paul and the Printing Press by A. O. (Arthur O.) Scott
The Armenian Bible, with marginal references, electrotyped and printed in New York by the American Bible Society, was highly prized.
From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson
The methods hitherto used of electrotyping would have proved useless, as all detail would have been lost.
From Photogravure by Henry R. Blaney
This process prevents entirely the circulation of blacklead in the air, which has heretofore been so objectionable in the process of electrotyping.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 by Various
A negative copper copy is made from it by electrotyping.
From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams
A new impetus to the making of books and printing was given by Woolwich's new system of electrotyping, and Charles Young's new device of a type-setting machine, first employed on the "Family Herald."
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson
The determining factors in this phase of electrotyping are the composition of the electrolytic bath, its temperature, and the current density applied.
From From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 by H. C. Forster
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