Franklin Peale Peale designed a new machine to cut planchets, or blanks, from metal strips. This machine remained in use, almost unmodified, until 1902. Another of the steam-powered machines Peale had installed on his return was a milling machine, which was used to "upset" the coin—to form a rim around it. A Contamin portrait lathe was imported from France and installed at the Philadelphia Mint in 1837. Prior to this time, all coin dies for American coins had to be made individually, by hand at Philadelphia. Once the lathe was installed, they could be reproduced mechanically by the pantograph-like device. The first
Jamie Blanks Jamie Blanks Jamie Blanks is an Australian film director and composer. He is probably most famous for directing the 1998 cult slasher film "Urban Legend". He attended film school at Melbourne’s Swinburne Film School (becoming the Victorian College of the Arts during his three years of study). Blanks gave commentaries on the "Urban Legend" and "Valentine" (2001) DVDs. His third feature "Storm Warning" won awards for Special Effects and Score at Screamfest 2007. Blanks shot, edited and composed the score for his fourth feature, "Long Weekend" (released on video in the United States as "Nature's Grave"), starring Jim Caviezel and