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William Dahlgren, a self-taught inventor who revolutionized the engraving industry a quarter of a century ago and was recently fiddling with computerized player pianos, died in his San Francisco home ...

This patent model demonstrates an invention for an engraving machine with a pantograph; the invention was granted patent number 9743. The machine for "mezzotint or other engraving" stood on a table ...