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Definition of Siderography

Siderography
Siderography Sid`er*og"ra*phy, n. [Gr. ??? iron + -graphy.] The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy.

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- Siderography is a mechanical process developed by Jacob Perkins in the early 1800s enabling the unlimited reproduction of engraved steel plates. The process...
- Transferrers' ****ociation, the first labor union for workers skilled in siderography (the engraving and m**** reproduction of steel plates for newspaper printing)...
- to their exhibitions. Jacob Perkins the American inventor developed siderography, a steel engraving technique, and in 1809 met Joseph Chessborough Dyer...
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- contained 24 copies of the engraved image. This process is known as siderography. The original plates, dies, and rolls for this series were destro****...
- interpretation of the typography of bank notes, based on a study of siderography - the steel engraving process used for currency and old fashioned stocks...