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Electrotyping was also used to produce entire printing plates directly from the formes composed from movable type and illustrations. In this application, electrotyping was a higher quality but more costly alternative to stereotyping, which involved casting of type metal into a mold prepared from the forme. Stereotyping had been invented around ...
Electroforming is a metal forming process in which parts are fabricated through electrodeposition on a model, known in the industry as a mandrel. Conductive (metallic) mandrels are treated to create a mechanical parting layer, or are chemically passivated to limit electroform adhesion to the mandrel and thereby allow its subsequent separation.
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Matrices created by Jean Jannon around 1640. The Garamond typeface installed with most Microsoft software is based on these designs. [1] [2] [3] In the manufacture of metal type used in letterpress printing, a matrix (from the Latin meaning womb or a female breeding animal) is the mould used to cast a letter, known as a sort. [4]
A direct-administered municipality (直辖市; Zhíxiáshì; 'direct-administered city'; commonly known as municipality) [1] is a city of China that is directly affiliated with the central government and is not placed under any provinces.
English: Schematic apparatus for electrotyping. An electrical current flows from the battery, through the copper anode connected to the positive terminal of the battery, through the electrolyte, and into the coated mold (the cathode). A copper film (the electrotype) grows onto the electrically conducting coating of the mold.
Frederick was born in Karlsruhe, Baden, on 9 September 1826.He was the third son of Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden and Princess Sophie of Sweden.He became the heir presumptive to the grand duchy upon the death of his father in 1852 [1] and the accession of his brother as Grand Duke Louis II.
Typing is the process of writing or inputting text by pressing keys on a typewriter, computer keyboard, mobile phone, or calculator. It can be distinguished from other means of text input, such as handwriting and speech recognition. Text can be in the form of letters, numbers and other symbols. The world's first typist was Lillian Sholes from ...