Typesetter
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- OBJECT TYPE
- PHOTO/COMPUTER/TEXT/NEG DISK
- DATE
- 1961
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1978.0966.001
- MANUFACTURER
- PHOTON INC.
- MODEL
- ADMASTER 200B
- LOCATION
- Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 2332
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 6
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL & SYNTHETIC
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 147.0 cm
- Width
- 81.0 cm
- Height
- 106.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Printing
- Category
- Typesetting
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- PHOTON
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Massachusetts
- City
- Wilmington
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
TO AUTOMATICALLY SET TYPE ON FILM OR PAPER. - Technical
-
EXAMPLE OF A PHOTOGRAPHIC TYPESETTER WHICH USES A SPINNING NEGATIVE DISK & SEVERAL DIFFERENT LENSES, THEREBY PROVIDING A POTENTIAL OF 192 FONTS FROM ONE DISK/PHOTON WAS A LEADER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC TYPESETTERS - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- PLATE 'Photon, INC./ Wilmington, Mass./ Serial No. 2332'; LABELLING ON CONTROL PANELS INCLUDES 'PHOTON, INC./ Pi Row/ Techno Extrabold/ Bookman Italic/ Bookman/ Bodoni Bold Italic/ Bondoni Bold/ Bodoni Campanile 9/ Century Schoolbook 12.5/ Poster Bodoni Italic/ Poster Bodoni/ Techno Bold Italic/ Techno Bold/ Techno Medium Cond. 10/ Techno Bold Cond.10/ Techno Medium Italic/ Techno Medium/ DISC 0337'/, 'NORMAL/ PI MATS/ ADDITIONAL LEADING/ LEADING 10 POINTS 1 POINT 0.1 POINT/ LENGTH OF LINE 10 UNITS 1 UNIT 0.1 UNIT'/ INSIDE DOOR' PHOTON, INC./ [ADDED STICKER] 33587'.
- Missing
- From CA of 01/20/1995 by Tony Missio: Undetermined
- Finish
- PAINTED GREEN, SILVER & BLACK PANELS WITH BLACK KEYS, KEYBOARD BUFF W. WHITE KEYS ABOVE.
- Decoration
- N/A
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PHOTON INC., Typesetter, after 1961, Artifact no. 1978.0966, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1978.0966.001/
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