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Diagram of electrotype apparatus as devised by George Mathiot of the CoastSurvey. This apparatus allowed the reproduction of copper-plate engravingseach of which could only survive 500 to a 1000 or so press impressions beforewearing away sufficiently to be useless. This system allowed the production ofthousands of charts via plate copies produced from the original engraving.