Electrotyping

Our scientific chief had discovered a process something like what is called electrotyping nowadays, as I imagine.

Harper's employed a new printing technology, electrotyping, to print the over 1,600 illustrations that were primarily integrated into the text, rather than bound in as separate plates, although they also included some two-color pages to entice subscribers to continue subscribing.

His abiding admiration for the marriage of science and art, historicism and modernism, led him to build a photography studio and start collecting electrotyping. Then in 1867 he launched his 'Convention for Promoting Universally Reproductions of Works of Art for the Benefit of Museums of all Countries', which heralded a new era for the exchange and production of plaster casts across Europe.

Reports from different parts of the world have indicated electrotyping as a potential tool for studying the molecular epidemiology of human rotavirus infections [40].

At the same time as electroplating, a related process was developed known as electrotyping which, instead of depositing a thin skin of metal, allowed a whole object to be grown in the plating vat.

Leather-dressing, coach-making, boiler-making, rope-twisting, distilling, sign-painting, lime-burning, cotton-picking, electroplating, electrotyping, stereotyping,

By the 1890s it consisted of eight departments: Printing, Binding, Electrotyping and Stereotyping, Periodicals, Book Publishing Subscription Books, Wholesale Book and Bible Department, and the Retail Bookstore.