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
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
An electrotype and stereotype mat service for national advertising in country papers is another important Western Newspaper Union activity.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by william t. adams, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. electrotyped at the boston stereotype foundry.
From The Birthday Party A Story for Little Folks by Oliver Optic
The pages of Arabic were electrotyped in Beirût by Mr. Samuel Hallock, the skilful superintendent of the American Press.
From The Women of the Arabs by Charles S. (Charles Seymour) Robinson
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
Important Announcement.—As we have electrotyped our Magazine, we can supply any number of this issue.
From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 by Various
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
This quickening of the time required to deposit the shell was one of the most essential features in the development of commercial electrotyping.
From From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 by H. C. Forster
The determining factors in this phase of electrotyping are the composition of the electrolytic bath, its temperature, and the current density applied.
From From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 by H. C. Forster
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
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 type of a particular page or article after it has been used on the press or for electrotyping is distributed letter by letter in the cases.
From Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) by Seymour Eaton
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