Unpublished paper, 'Account of an improvement in the machine for producing engravings of medals, busts etc. directly from the objects themselves; in which the distortions hitherto attending such representations are entirely obviated' by [Charles Spence] Bate
Reference number: AP/15/15
Date: 1832

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Bate describes his improvement on an apparatus used for making prints of medals and busts, which using the American method, results in a distorted image. He modified the apparatus by inclining the plane that the tracing line is moved over, greatly improving the end results.
An ink inscription final page verso reads 'Not to be printed P.M.R. [Peter Mark Roget]'. Numerous corrections appear throughout in ink and graphite.
Subject: Industry
Communicated by J G [John George] Children. Received by the Royal Society on 15 November 1832. Read to the Royal Society on 22 November 1832.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Account of an improvement in the machine for producing engravings of medals, busts, &c. directly from the objects themselves, in which the distortions hitherto attending such representations are entirely obviated'.
- Reference number
- AP/15/15
- Earliest possible date
- 1832
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Charles Spence Bate, Unpublished paper, 'Account of an improvement in the machine for producing engravings of medals, busts etc. directly from the objects themselves; in which the distortions hitherto attending such representations are entirely obviated' by [Charles Spence] Bate, 1832, AP/15/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_15_15/unpublished-paper-account-of-an-improvement-in-the-machine-for-producing-engravings-of-medals-busts-etc-directly-from-the-objects-themselves-in-which-the-distortions-hitherto-attending-such-representations-are-entirely-obviated-by-charles-spence-bate, accessed on 11 February 2025
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Archived papers: volume 15, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1831-1832
1830-1832 Reference number: AP/15
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