ferrotypen.
/ˈfɛrətʌɪp/, U.S. /ˈfɛrəˌtaɪp/ Now historical.
1. A photographic process using iron compounds as developing agents; = energiatype n. Also: a photograph made by this process.rare after mid 19th cent.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > [noun]
daguerreotype1839
calotype1841
chrysotype1842
chromotype1843
ferrotype1843
tithonotype1843
amphitype1844
energiatype1844
fluorotype1844
Talbotype1844
daguerreotypy1853
ambrotype1854
bitumen process1858
carbon process1858
reversal1859
pyro-photography1869
vitrotype1875
platinotype1877
transferrotype1889
diazotype1890
kallitype1890
Joly process1894
reversal process1908
bromoil1909
bleach-out process1914
carbro1919
Finlay process1931
reversal processing1931
diazo1948
xography1965
push processing1966
1843 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. 6 286/1 This tract..takes up the subject [of photography] in all its branches, including..Ferrotype, Anthotype.
1847 N. Brit. Rev. Aug. 476 Mr. Hunt exhibited, under the name of Ferrotypes, pictures produced by using every salt of silver, and developed by iron.
1866 Photogr. News 26 Jan. 47/1 In the ferrotype process, published in 1844, the developer was composed of gum arabic and protosulphate of iron.
1891 C. Wright Threshold Sci. xxv. 366 The term ferrotype..is more properly applied to those photographic processes where iron compounds are the bodies sensitive to light therein employed.
2000 R. Hirsch Seizing Light iv. 77/1 The name ferrotype..was originally used by Robert Hunt in the mid-1840s for a paper negative process (Energiatype) that utilized an iron-compound developer.
2.
a. A photograph taken using a process by which negatives are taken directly on black-enamelled or painted thin iron plates covered with photographic emulsion, the dark background giving the appearance of a positive image. Cf. tin-type n. a.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > [adjective] > types or methods generally
tithonographic1842
instantaneous1851
ferrotype1857
telephotographic1892
telephoto1893
telephotal1904
tabletop1914
time-lapse1926
multiflash1939
synchro-sunlight1940
tele1954
lowlight1984
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > photograph by process
tithonograph1842
platinotype1844
daguerreotype1849
crystallotype1852
catalysotype1853
black print1855
sun print1855
blueprint1857
ferrotype1857
tin-type1864
pyro-photograph1869
opalotype1873
gelatine picture1875
hellenotype1875
panotype1875
silver print1878
autophotograph1880
platinum print1881
bromide print1885
solar1889
solar print1889
shadowgraph1896
skiagraph1896
rotograph1899
autochrome1902
rayogram1932
reduction print1933
photogram1934
blow-up1945
Polaroid1953
opaque1959
bromide1967
1857 Columbus (Ohio) Gaz. 3 July 3/1 Griswold is just introducing his brother's patent Ferrotypes, taken upon enameled iron plates, similar to the Melainotypes, but vastly superior.
1880 Times 5 Oct. 6/6 Ferrotypes..so called from being done on thin iron instead of glass.
1909 Pop. Mech. Sept. 31/1 (advt.) Everybody interested in preparing your own Ferrotypes and Tintypes write for particulars.
1960 Life 4 July 92/1 Campaign buttons from austere ferrotypes to smiling celluloid portraits, are arranged in order of presidential succession for the last 100 years.
2001 Guardian 3 Mar. (Saturday section) 7/6 This is a ferrotype, or tintype, probably taken in 1880, the year he [sc. Billy the Kid] was captured by Sheriff Pat Garrett.
b. In full ferrotype plate. A thin iron plate used in this process.Ferrotype plates were also adapted for use as a diaphragm in the mouthpiece and earpiece of a telephone.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > parts of telephone
induction coil1837
ferrotype1857
telephone receiver1875
mouthpiece1877
receiver1877
microphone1878
telephone trumpet1879
magneto bell1882
magneto call bella1884
rest1883
hook1885
receptor1898
telephone dial1898
ringer1899
dial1900
Button A (or B)1922
switch hook1922
phone bell1924
hybrid coil1925
cradle1929
dial wheel1938
hybrid transformer1941
scriber1968
fascia1973
1857 Williams' Ohio State Reg. & Business Mirror 70 (advt.) Griswold's Patented Photographic Materials, including papyrotype and ferotype plates.
1864 J. Towler Silver Sunbeam xxi. 142 The Excelsior plate and the Eureka plate in my opinion are the best; The Ferrotype is very good, and much cheaper.
1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 274 Two small blocks of wood..one perforated for the mouth-piece and holding a ferrotype plate.
1886 Electrician 4 June 73/2 As the noise made by the vibrator and the telephone at the sending end was sometimes a nuisance, it was reduced to a minimum in this instrument by using a very light armature—simply a piece of ferrotype or tinned iron.
1939 B. Dudley in K. Henney & B. Dudley Handbk. Photogr. xiii. 410 Upon completion of the final washing, dip the clean ferrotype plate in water to remove dust specks and lint.
2007 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 97 107 Later multiplying cameras could accommodate nonstandard-sized ferrotype plates.
Derivatives
ˈferrotyper n. a person who takes photographs by either of the ferrotype processes, esp. as part of a profession or business.
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1871 Photographer's Friend Oct. 146/2 Four galleries are located here, (two photographers and two ferrotypers).
1911 Photo-miniature June 393 A list of the famous Anthony soluble cottons, collodions and varnishes is also given, as used by photographers, wet-plate and process workers, and ferrotypers.
2000 P. E. Palmquist & I. R. Kailbourn Pioneer Photographers of Far West 610/2 In 1871, the ‘Michigan’ Young worked as a ferrotyper for Jackson C. Young in Battle Creek, Michigan.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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