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Photon2|ˈfəʊtɒn|
[f. photo- 2 + -n.]
The proprietary name of a range of photo-composing equipment (see quot. 1958). Also attrib.
1953Publishers' Weekly 7 Feb. 756/2 ‘The Wonderful World of Insects’ is the first volume to be composed with the revolutionary Higgonet-Moyroud [sic] photographic type-composing machine, more commonly called Photon. 1953Newsweek 16 Feb. 82/3 Last week the Photon made its formal debut... Dr. Bush presented..the first Photon-composed book, ‘The Wonderful World of Insects’. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Apr. 200/2 This apparatus was invented in 1944 by two French engineers, MM. Higonnet and Moyroud, who sold their plans to the Graphic Arts Foundation of Cambridge, Mass., which has developed their invention since 1949 under the name of Photon. The machine prints letters on to film by stroboscopic flashes of light which pass through a continuously revolving disc, upon which are carried sixteen founts of ninety letters each. Ibid. 200/3 The first Photon book was The Wonderful World of Insects, by Albro Gaul, published by Rinehart & Company Inc. in New York in 1953. 1967C. J. Duncan in Cox & Grose Organiz. Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer ii. 45 In the Photon 540 or the Intertype, the characters are held on a disc. |