autoplaten.
/ˈɔːtə(ʊ)ˌpleɪt/, U.S. /ˈɔdoʊˌpleɪt/, /ˈɔdəˌpleɪt/, /ˈɑdoʊˌpleɪt/, /ˈɑdəˌpleɪt/ Printing. Originally U.S.† 1. An early form of photo-engraving; an image produced by this. Obsolete.
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1879 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 108 288 The Secretary read a paper giving an account..of the ‘Autoplate’ of Louis Brown & Co., and a number of specimens of the work were exhibited.
1892 Exhib. Techn. Methods Reprod. Arts (Museum Fine Arts, Boston) 78 Louis Brown & Co..are also to be reckoned among the earlier photo-engravers of the United States, as they were awarded a medal for their ‘Autoplates’... Details of process unknown.
2. A machine for making curved stereotype plates; a plate made by such a machine. Also: the system that produces these. Now chiefly historical.
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society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > type-setting machines
typesetter1867
typograph1886
typotheter1888
autoplate1901
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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > blocks, plates, or transfers > [noun] > stereotype plates
stereotype1799
stereo1823
plate1824
stereotype-block1859
autoplate1901
1901 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 52 21591/1 The Autoplate—an automatic stereotyping machine.
1902 Census Bull. 28 June 51 (Cent. Dict. Suppl.) A device known as the autoplate was invented in 1900 by means of which the time required for casting plates was..reduced.
1928 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 24 Jan. 712/1 Autoplate... Apparatus for making stereotype printing plates. Claims use since 15 Apr., 1900.
1963 Times 17 Apr. 3/5 Junior Autoplate Casting Equipment is available.
1996 L. Day & I. McNeil Biogr. Dict. Hist. Technol. 767/2 Wood was responsible for a series of inventions that brought great benefit to the newspaper-printing processes. Most notable was the Autoplate.
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autoplate machine n. now rare a machine for automatically casting, shaving, and bevelling stereotype printing plates.
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1901 Inland & Amer. Printer & Lithographer 27 870 Chiefly important to the introduction of the autoplate machine in newspaper plants is the time saved by its use.
1924 Farnhamian Mar. 20 The wonderful Autoplate machines have coppers full of boiling, bubbling,molten lead, from which they cast about eight plates a minutes.
1961 M. G. Say Electr. Engineer's Ref. Bk. (ed. 10) xxx. 97 The B-W system for melting the large masses of stereo metal used in Autoplate machines.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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