Editing Die casting (section)

==History==
Die casting equipment was invented in 1838 for the purpose of producing [[movable type]] for the [[printing industry]]. The first die casting-related [[patent]] was granted in 1849 for a small hand-operated machine for the purpose of mechanized printing type production. In 1885 [[Ottmar Mergenthaler]] invented the [[Linotype machine]], which cast an entire line of type as a single unit, using a [[Linotype machine#Mold disk and crucible|die casting process]]. It nearly completely replaced setting type by hand in the publishing industry. The Soss die-casting machine, manufactured in Brooklyn, NY, was the first machine to be sold in the open market in North America.<ref>{{Citation |title= Machinery's reference series |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=pF0PAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA9 |publisher=The Industrial Press |access-date= 2013-11-18 |postscript= .|year = 1913}}</ref> Other applications grew rapidly, with die casting facilitating the growth of consumer goods, and appliances, by greatly reducing the production cost of intricate parts in high volumes.<ref>{{Citation|title=About die casting |url=http://www.diecasting.org/faq/ |publisher=The North American Die Casting Association |access-date=15 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101021064505/http://diecasting.org/faq/ |archive-date=21 October 2010 |postscript=. |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1966,<ref name="liu"/> General Motors released the ''[[#Acurad|Acurad]]'' process.<ref name="jorstad">{{Citation|last=John L. |first=Jorstad |title=Aluminum Future Technology in Die Casting |pages=18–25 |url=http://www.wpi.edu/Images/CMS/MPI/Jorstad.pdf |journal=Die Casting Engineering |date=September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614015740/http://www.wpi.edu/Images/CMS/MPI/Jorstad.pdf |archive-date=2011-06-14 |postscript=. |url-status=dead }}</ref>