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Ty-po-graph′ic ma-chine′.

One in which the depression of keys operates type in the proper succession to impress a matrix, from which a stereotype plate may be cast.

Sweets's machine is described and figured in Dr. Barnard's “Report of the French Exposition of 1867,” pages 443-448. It resembles a parlor-organ in appearance, having in front one or more banks of keys, the number corresponding to the number of sorts to be employed in the work.

Flamm's typographic compositor is shown and described in the same work, page 449.

See also type-writer. [2678]

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