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As a matter of fact, one electrotyper may keep his molds in the copper bath for three hours and get only as thick a shell as another who keeps his in but two hours.

From From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 by Forster, H. C.

Before he could get to the door he had chosen, he heard behind him the electrotyper chattering away like an automatic weapon with a weak sear spring.

From Take the Reason Prisoner by McGuire, John Joseph

The more skillful electrotyper would prefer Smee's, and this is the one most generally in use.

From American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype by Humphrey, S. D. (Samuel Dwight)

The first successful commercial electrotyper in America was John W. Wilcox, of Boston.

From From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 by Forster, H. C.

It is then delivered to the electrotyper, who first takes a mould of the block in wax, which mould is then covered with a thin coating of blacklead, that being a good conductor of electricity.

From The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress by Jackson, Mason