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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 S. D. (Samuel Dwight) Humphrey
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 John Joseph McGuire
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 H. C. Forster
Joachim sat in the small room behind his reception hall and held his fingers poised above the keys of the rather creaky electrotyper on his desk.
From Fifty Per Cent Prophet by Randall Garrett
District Court, held, where an electrotyper had sold to a third party an unauthorized electrotype of a copyrighted illustration, that the copyright law was not violated because the illustration had not been printed or published.
From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker
