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
The second method of making a matrix is by electrotype process.
From Type Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #1 by A. A. Stewart
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
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
All rights reserved Published, September, 1914 Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co.,
From Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott by Louisa May Alcott
The paper was made, the type set, the plates electrotyped, and the printing and binding done in union shops affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.
From Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare by John L. Spivak
The American Tract Society had also electrotyped and printed several works for the mission, which were admired for their beauty, and were furnished more cheaply than they could have been prepared in Constantinople.
From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson
Because of their wearing qualities and economy, however, copper and nickel are the two metals commercially used for electrotyping.
From From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 by H. C. Forster
This observation was the first step in the process of electroplating, which is electrotyping when applied to the art of typography.
From From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 by H. C. Forster
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
The necessary preparations were completed in 1868 for electrotyping the Arabic Scriptures in Beirût.
From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson
Electrotyping and StereotypingBy Harris B. Hatch and A. A. Stewart A primer of information about the processes of electrotyping and stereotyping.
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