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
Design of the Monument, small plate, produced by a process called electrotype; by Chas.
From History of the Washington National Monument and of the Washington National Monument Society by Frederick Loviad Harvey
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
So it was only after the printing of an edition that the blocks were electrotyped.
From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann
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
It was as like a peeled walnut with bits unevenly broken off here and there, and then electrotyped all over, as ever I saw anything in my life.
From Wreck of the Golden Mary by Charles Dickens
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
The process of electrotyping is as follows: The form is locked up very tightly, and is then coated with a surface of graphite, commonly known as blacklead, but it is a misnomer.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 by Various
This eminently useful application of the art of electrotyping originated with Volta, Cruickshank, and Wollaston about 1800 or 1801.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 by Various
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
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
The quickest way to do this is to carve the object out of hard paraffin, and then copy it by electrotyping.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
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