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Hectograph   Listen
noun
Hectograph  n.  (Written also hectograph)  A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hectograph" Quotes from Famous Books



... machine, and in another a sewing machine. Parts of an old telephone were scattered about on the teacher's desk. A model of a piggery stood on a shelf, done in cardboard. Instead of the usual collection of text-books in the desk, there were hectograph copies of exercises, reading lessons, arithmetical tables and essays on various matters relating to agriculture, all of which were accounted for by two or three hand-made hectographs—a very fair sort of printing plant—lying on a table. The members of the school board were there, looking on ...
— The Brown Mouse • Herbert Quick

... number of phonograms and three or four sets of consonants in envelopes. Give an envelope to each child and let him build the words on his desk. Duplicate copies can be made on a hectograph, one set for each lesson; then if one envelope from each set is preserved, those miscellaneous lessons can be used in review for a long time, each child using ...
— How to Teach Phonics • Lida M. Williams



Words linked to "Hectograph" :   re-create, copier, copy, collotype, photogelatin process, collotype printing



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