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The agency of a marmalade machine: Gender, class and mechanical gadgets in the British Kitchen, c.1870–1938

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the marmalade machine, a mechanical device designed to slice orange peel. These niche objects were manufactured between roughly 1870 and 1938 in Britain. As a so‐called ‘labour‐saving’ gadget, the marmalade machine sliced orange peel quickly and effectively, removing the tedious process of slicing orange peel by hand ...
Katie Carpenter
wiley   +1 more source

Printing Quality as Determined by the I.G.T. Tester [PDF]

open access: yes, 1959
Investigation of this method for the determination of printability indicates that it can be used to predict the printability of paper. However, since it lacks numerical rating, the visual evaluation depends finally upon the personal judgment of the ...
Pritchett, William A., Jr.
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Riding Through Norms: Creating and Performing Athletic Femininity at American Ladies’ Equestrian Exhibitions, 1850–1890

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
wiley   +1 more source

Elimination of the Solid Graininess Issue with Different Micro-Pattern Structures at Flexo Printing

open access: yesApplied Sciences
Flexo printing is a relief printing system, and ink transfers on the solid areas are not transferring well during the printing. That is why graininess is increasing and pinholes are occurring on the solid areas.
Nehar Kesan, Turkun Sahinbaskan
doaj   +1 more source

Improvement and quality enhancement of gravure printing technology

open access: yesFrontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences
This article thoroughly and deeply explores the improvement methods of gravure printing technology and practical and effective ways to enhance quality. Through a comprehensive and in-depth analysis and understanding of the principle of gravure printing, a series of key issues in the current process have been analyzed in detail, such as uneven accuracy ...
Xiancang Zhang   +4 more
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

Facile separation of lithium fluoride to boost the electrical conductivity of MXene sediment

open access: yesMaterials Research Express
Printing technologies have enabled the low-cost and large-scale production of MXene-based transparent conductive electrodes. Fabrication of inks with MXene monolayers in liquid phase for printing requires bespoke centrifugation separation, and the yield ...
Jiale Huang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

The print and packaging forum: a report on the print industry’s review of its own performance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This report is presented to the Print and Packaging Forum in fulfilment of the activities envisaged under Research Agreement signed between the Leadership, Innovation and Knowledge Research Centre DCU and the Irish Printing and Packaging Forum dated 15 ...
Clancy, Rosemary   +2 more
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