. Machinery and processes of the industrial arts, and apparatus of the exact sciences. me form here-after. Should it become possible to prepare stereotype plates withoutthe necessity of setting up the matter first in movable types, a very largereduction might at once be made in the amount of stock and furniturerequired in all great publishiug establishments. Printing olfices wouldbe vastly less encumbered than at present with the quantity and bulkof their material ; and the amount of capital which would be necessaryin order to keep alive an industry of given magnitude would be corre-spondingly
. Machinery and processes of the industrial arts, and apparatus of the exact sciences. me form here-after. Should it become possible to prepare stereotype plates withoutthe necessity of setting up the matter first in movable types, a very largereduction might at once be made in the amount of stock and furniturerequired in all great publishiug establishments. Printing olfices wouldbe vastly less encumbered than at present with the quantity and bulkof their material ; and the amount of capital which would be necessaryin order to keep alive an industry of given magnitude would be corre-spondingly diminished. These advantages are quite independent of themore obvious ones, which consist in reaching a given end in briefer time,with less labor, and with fewer intermediate steps than before : and insubstituting for the fatiguing labor of composition with movable types,as at present practiced, which requires the compositor to stand frommorning till night, the very light task of touching the keys of an instru-ment while sitting at his ease. STEREOTYPING — FLAMMs COMPOSITOR. 449. FLAMM7S TYPOGRAPHIC COMPOSITOR. A machine somewhat similar to that of Mr. Sweet was exhibitedby Mr. Pierre Flainm, of Phlin, department of the Menrthe, France, ofwhich the general Fig. 93. appearance is hereshown. Taking ad-vantage of what hasbeen said of theformer one, this maybe described in fewwords. Ithasatypewheel, like that ofMr. Sweet, and thetypes are depressedby a punch as in thesame. The impres-sion is received upona plastic substance, designed to form a Flamms Typographic Compositor. matrix. This substance is fixed upon a platen which has two move-ments at right angles to each other. The principal practical differencebetween the two machines is, that the one is all but entirely automatic,while the other is only partially so. In the machine of Mr. Flamm, thetype wheel is turned and the punch is depressed by the hand of theworkman himself. The transversal movement of the platen—that inthe
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