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Definition of Platemaker
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Platemaker
Literary usage of Platemaker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annals of Bristol in the Seventeenth Century by John Latimer (1900)
"At a meeting of the Council in September, three men, one of them a " platemaker,"
meaning probably a silversmith, were admitted to the freedom on payment of ..."
2. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1897)
"The advantages of high speed are so great in practice that the constant aim of
the platemaker must be to produce the greatest possible density-giving powers ..."
3. The Staffordshire Potter by Harold Owen (1901)
"Instead of the platemaker holding the tool in his hands, the profile, or tool,
is fixed upon the lever, and the man, by pulling a handle, brings the tool ..."
4. Wilson's Quarter Century in Photography: A Collection of Hints on Practical by Edward Livingston Wilson (1887)
"The number of changes lie may can* is the alum and hypo, and conies out a ghost—past
all patching, and our "immature" worker then goes for the platemaker ..."
5. Wilson's Quarter Century in Photography: A Collection of Hints on Practical by Edward Livingston Wilson (1887)
"I am quite sure that I get better results than by a shorter exposure and full
strength of normal developer given by the platemaker; of course, ..."
6. The Annals of Bristol in the Seventeenth Century by John Latimer (1900)
"At a meeting of the Council in September, three men, one of them a " platemaker,"
meaning probably a silversmith, were admitted to the freedom on payment of ..."
7. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1897)
"The advantages of high speed are so great in practice that the constant aim of
the platemaker must be to produce the greatest possible density-giving powers ..."
8. The Staffordshire Potter by Harold Owen (1901)
"Instead of the platemaker holding the tool in his hands, the profile, or tool,
is fixed upon the lever, and the man, by pulling a handle, brings the tool ..."
9. Wilson's Quarter Century in Photography: A Collection of Hints on Practical by Edward Livingston Wilson (1887)
"The number of changes lie may can* is the alum and hypo, and conies out a ghost—past
all patching, and our "immature" worker then goes for the platemaker ..."
10. Wilson's Quarter Century in Photography: A Collection of Hints on Practical by Edward Livingston Wilson (1887)
"I am quite sure that I get better results than by a shorter exposure and full
strength of normal developer given by the platemaker; of course, ..."
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