Invented by Captain Charles Barbier, it was a system of embossed dots and dashes that soldiers could read safely with their fingers on the battlefield at night.
In his lifetime some of Wedgwood's most popular products were his medallions: little ceramic circles embossed with profiles of famous figures, such as Aristotle, John Locke and Voltaire.
For projects that call for close-ups, they use this old-school embossing machine to make sure the lighting reflects off the numbers on the card in the right way.
At a flat desk in line with the doors was a tall, lean, dark-haired lovely whose name, according to the tilted embossed plaque on her desk, was Miss Adrienne Fromsett.
This raised text means it's probably from the 50s or 60s, while the flat text on these means they were produced a bit later, since most cities stopped embossing road signs in the 70s and 80s.
The face of the cliff back of it, and on both sides, is smoothly covered and embossed with mosses, against which the white water shines out in showy relief, like a silver instrument in a velvet case.
" As you can see, " Langdon quietly said, " the wax seal is embossed with Peter's Masonic ring. He said this ring was used to seal the package more than a century ago." Katherine said nothing.
Eugenie had seen in the furtive glance that she cast about the young man's room—that girlish glance which sees all in the twinkling of an eye—the pretty trifles of his dressing-case, his scissors, his razors embossed with gold.