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
The first mat molded from an electrotype pattern plate will be sharp.
From From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 by H. C. Forster
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
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
He went into the dark composing-room, lit a candle, and rummaging in a drawer sacred to weather-beaten, old-fashioned electrotyped advertising symbols of various trades, finally selected one and brought it to Mrs. Dimmidge.
From Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation by Bret Harte
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
Electrotyping and StereotypingBy Harris B. Hatch and A. A. Stewart A primer of information about the processes of electrotyping and stereotyping.
In comparison with electrotyping, however, it has two distinct disadvantages.
From From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 by H. C. Forster
Besides he made models of sawmills, fire-engines, steamboats, and electrotyping machines.
From James B. Eads by Louis How
These improvements have been steady in their development, but the fundamental points of the process are practically those which have been in use from the start of commercial electrotyping.
From From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 by H. C. Forster
These processes are the essentials used today in electrotyping.
From From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 by H. C. Forster
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