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Ste′re-o-typing-ma-chine′.

One in which type are brought forward seriatim to impress the material for a matrix from which a stereotype-plate is to be cast. The operation is similar to that of a type-composing machine, the letters, spaces, punctuation-marks, etc., being operated by keys, on a manual like a piano-forte. See also typographic machine.

Nelson's stereotype-machine was exhibited in New York in 1867. An apparatus on the same principle was also exhibited at the Paris Exposition in 1867. In this but one type of each sort was used, which was arranged at the end of a key-lever, and imprinted itself in the proper place on a bed of clay moving automatically. This, when completed, was served as the ordinary plaster casts for stereotyping, the liquid metal being poured in, and in a few moments producing complete stereotype-plates.

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