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Woodbury|ˈwʊdbərɪ|
The name of Walter Bentley Woodbury (1834–1885), inventor of many contrivances connected with photography, used attrib. in designations of processes invented by him, as Woodbury-gravure, Woodbury-process; esp. Woodburytype |ˈwʊdbərɪˌtaɪp| [see -type], a process in which a design on a film of gelatine, obtained from a photographic negative, is transferred by heavy pressure to a metal plate from which it may be printed; a print thus produced; also attrib.
1869Photogr. Jrnl. 16 Jan. 218/2 The Woodbury Type Company. 1872Woodbury Patent Specif. 4 Dec., in Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 565 The ordinary Woodbury printing-press. 1875tr. Vogel's Chem. Light xv. 245 Woodbury printing. 1878Abney Treat. Photogr. 174 The Woodbury⁓type process. 1881Athenæum 22 Jan. 134/1 This book..is illustrated by Woodburytype reproductions of contemporary views of the Tower of London. 1881Nation (N.Y.) XXXII. 219 A two-page Woodburytype of a Caxton eaten..by book⁓worms. 1892Hazell's Annual 559 It is an improvement upon the well known Woodbury process, and has been given the name of Woodbury-gravure. |