Moritz Hermann Jacobi

Moritz Hermann Jacobi was a German physicist and engineer. He was born om September 21, 1801, in Potsdam, Germany. Jacobi graduated from the Getingen University and in 1834 he moved to Kenigsberg where he worked as an architect. In 1835 Jacobi received professorship at the Derpt University, but two years later, in 1937, he decided to move to St. Petersburg. Jacobi worked as a leading researcher at the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg alongside others such as the chemist …

…made by electroplating a thin shell of copper or other metal onto a mold, usually wax, of the original cut or type form and then removing the mold and backing the shell with metal. More durable than type and cuts, electros are used instead of the original for long press runs, to avoid wear and damage to expensive type and halftones or linecuts. Electrotypes also can duplicate and replace linoleum cuts, woodcuts, and wood engravings.