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
An electrotype and stereotype mat service for national advertising in country papers is another important Western Newspaper Union activity.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Used for planing the bottom of the wood base so that the mounted electrotype is of printing press requirements, i. e.,
From From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 by H. C. Forster
A number of these elecrotypes may be fastened together and electrotyped in one piece.
From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff
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
Published September, 1917 Second edition, 1918 Third edition, August, 1920 Reprinted, January, 1922 Set up, electrotyped and printed by Vail-Ballou Co.,
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
From a properly etched plate hundreds of thousands of prints may be obtained, or it may be electrotyped or stereotyped and multiplied indefinitely.—G.S.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various
Published May, 1922 Set up, electrotyped and printed by the Vail-Ballou Co.,
From Waiting for Daylight by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
The next step in developing the electrotyping process, after Spencer had demonstrated the practical application of the electro-chemical deposition of a copper shell on a mold, was made by a Mr. Robert Murray.
From From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 by H. C. Forster
In 1837, thirty-eight years after Volta’s discovery, Mr. Thomas Spencer of Liverpool, England, accidentally stumbled upon the first realization of the electrotyping process.
From From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 by H. C. Forster
This quickening of the time required to deposit the shell was one of the most essential features in the development of commercial electrotyping.
From From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 by H. C. Forster
A. This can be done by coating with plumbago, and then electrotyping with copper, in a way familiar to most printers and to all electrotyping establishments.
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
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