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Identifier: historyofrisepro00dunl_3 (find matches)
Title: A history of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Dunlap, William, 1766-1839 Bayley, Frank W. (Frank William), 1863-1932 Goodspeed, Charles E. (Charles Eliot), 1867-1950
Subjects: Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, C. E. Goodspeed & co.
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ior wearing qualitiesof steel over copper. For this invention he was granted a patent bythe United States Government on March 18,1799, and supplementarypatents covering further improvements were granted later. In 1805twenty-six banks had adopted Perkins notes and the attention ofthe General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts havingbeen drawn to this subject, a bill was enacted in 1809 (Chap. 99, Actsof 1809, approved March 4, 1809), requiring all incorporated banksin the State to adopt bills printed from Perkins patent stereotypesteel plates. (See Perkins Memorial to the General Court of Feb-ruary 28,1806, printed in appendix to this volume). In 1809, JosephC. Dyer was sent to introduce the system into Great Britain, andthe following year he secured patents for Perkins in the United King-dom. Perkins formed a partnership in 1810 with Gideon Fairman,also a native of Newburyport, under the style of Perkins & Fair-man. They published in that year a text-book of penmanship —
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ADDENDA 327 Perkins & Fairmans Running Hand. Stereographic Copies. Pat-ent Steel Plates — which was, so far as we know, the earliest useof steel plates for books. In 1814, Perkins went to Philadelphia, en-tering the bank-note firm of Murray, Draper, Fairman & Co. In1816, in company with other engravers, he went to London to com-pete (it is said) for a prize offered by the Society of Arts of that cityfor the best means of preventing the forgery of bank notes. Theresult of this contest we do not know, but Perkins did receive fromthis Society both gold and silver medals for other useful inventions.While in London, Perkins and Fairman entered into partnership withCharles Heath, the English engraver, for the production of banknotes, book-illustrations, etc., by the hardened steel process, andmany plates were engraved by this firm. The Transactions of theSociety of Arts, vol. 38, London, 1821, contains a long account bythem of their process. Perkins continued to reside in London a

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