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November 7, 1885
The Palatka Daily News
Palatka, Putnam County, Florida
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Lieut. Buller Carter of Bow Lane, London, invents an electricity-powered engraving machine for decorative metal work, using types or stereotype plates to guide an electro-magnet-controlled graver for accurate, rapid engravings.
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Engraving by Electricity
[Scientific Journal.]
Lieut. Buller Carter, of Bow Lane, London, has invented a new engraving machine, in which electricity has been introduced into the mechanism with great success. It is chiefly intended for decorative engraving upon metal work, and is capable of producing high-finished results with a celerity in which manual work is completely distanced.
The words or designs to be engraved are first furnished by a setting of ornamental types or stereotype plate. Over this is passed in parallel lines an arm of the machine, to which is attached a fine protected platinum point. The motion of the arm is responded to by that of a table, which carries the metal to be inscribed or decorated beneath the point of the graver. The types or stereotype plate, by raising the platinum point, puts into circuit a current of electricity, which, acting upon an electro-magnet, raises or depresses the graver and produces an enlarged or reduced engraved copy of the types upon the metal on the table, and does this with perfect accuracy.
[Scientific Journal.]
Lieut. Buller Carter, of Bow Lane, London, has invented a new engraving machine, in which electricity has been introduced into the mechanism with great success. It is chiefly intended for decorative engraving upon metal work, and is capable of producing high-finished results with a celerity in which manual work is completely distanced.
The words or designs to be engraved are first furnished by a setting of ornamental types or stereotype plate. Over this is passed in parallel lines an arm of the machine, to which is attached a fine protected platinum point. The motion of the arm is responded to by that of a table, which carries the metal to be inscribed or decorated beneath the point of the graver. The types or stereotype plate, by raising the platinum point, puts into circuit a current of electricity, which, acting upon an electro-magnet, raises or depresses the graver and produces an enlarged or reduced engraved copy of the types upon the metal on the table, and does this with perfect accuracy.
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Triumph
What keywords are associated?
Engraving Machine
Electricity
Invention
Decorative Engraving
Metal Work
Lieut. Buller Carter
What entities or persons were involved?
Lieut. Buller Carter
Where did it happen?
Bow Lane, London
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Lieut. Buller Carter
Location
Bow Lane, London
Story Details
Lieut. Buller Carter invents an engraving machine using electricity to produce decorative engravings on metal with high speed and accuracy, guided by types or stereotype plates that control an electro-magnet to move the graver.