Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A positive photograph made directly on an iron plate varnished with a thin sensitized film.
- noun The process by which such photographs are made.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of positive photograph, so called because the sensitive film is laid on a sheet of enameled iron or tin; a tintype. The plate is exposed in the camera and then developed in the ordinary way.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; -- familiarly called
tintype .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an early
photographic process in which theimage is made on aniron plate having asensitized surface film
Etymologies
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Examples
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I put one on a piece of ferrotype plate, and that gave really the best result I ever got.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Various
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My method is to mount not more than half a dozen at once, placing them face down, one on top of the other, on a glass or ferrotype plate, blotting off the surface water and spreading the paste over the top one in the usual way.
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The most distinct articulate speech was obtained from an ordinary ferrotype telephone plate, secured at the edges, and one of the glass tubes you see here attached to it.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Various
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I tried putting in a large number of these tubes, all in quantity, on the bottom of a ferrotype plate, but with no advantage.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Various
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_ It is commonly known under the names of “blue print process,” “negative ferrotype process” and
Photographic Reproduction Processes Peter C. Duchochois
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The primitive telephone has been greatly improved, the double electro-magnet being replaced by a single bar magnet having a small coil or bobbin of fine wire surrounding one pole, in front of which a thin disc of ferrotype is fixed in a circular mouthpiece, and serves as a combined membrane and armature.
Heroes of the Telegraph John Munro 1889
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Photographica includes tintypes, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes and photographs, including desirable Abraham Lincoln photos and a ferrotype.
Antique News News! 2010
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Photographica includes tintypes, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes and photographs, including desirable Abraham Lincoln photos and a ferrotype.
Antique News News! 2010
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This undated ferrotype picture provided by the Lincoln County, N.M., Heritage Trust Archive is believed to depict William Bonney, also known as Billy the Kid, circa 1880.
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This undated ferrotype picture provided by the Lincoln County, N.M.,
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