Plate, printing
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- OBJECT TYPE
- curved/newspaper
- DATE
- 1971
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1971.0675.009
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Medicine Hat News/Oct. 4, 1971/p. 11
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 9
- Total Parts
- 34
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Metal printing plate
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Printing
- Category
- Image transfer
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Alberta
- Period
- October 4, 1971
- Canada
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POPULAR STYLE OF NEWSPAPER PRESS USED BY "SMALLER" CANADIAN DAILIES FROM THE MID 1890'S UNTIL THE MID 20TH C. - Function
-
Used in a large rotary printing press to transfer an image to paper using ink. Specifically, this plate was used in the printing of a page from a newspaper. - Technical
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"...IS HELD TO BE IN PRINCIPLE THE FINAL STEP IN DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEWSPAPER PERFECTING PRESS" (REF.3). INVENTED BY JOSEPH L. FIRM IN 1899 & PRODUCED BY GOSS, THE'STRAIGHTLINE' RAN THE PAPER FROM THE WEB TO FOLDER IN A STRAIGHT LINE. THIS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PRINCIPLE OF INTERCONNECTED DECKS INCREASED THE SPEED & EFFICIENCY OF NEWSPAPER PRINTING. IT ALSO ALLOWED FOR A 'COMPACT' SIZE PRESS IN TERMS OF THE FLOOR SPACE REQ'D. SHORTCOMINGS OF THE PRESS ARE DESCRIBED IN REF. 4. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- N/A
- Missing
- Appears complete
- Finish
- Silver-coloured curved metal plate
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Plate, printing, 1971, Artifact no. 1971.0675, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1971.0675.009/
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