Other etchers include Charles Koepping and W. S. Lathrop and Leopold Joseph Flameng. Birmingham's printmaking tradition revived with a generation of influential etchers in the 1930s. It is to Rembrandt that generations of etchers have constantly looked for inspiration. In New York, Young was a founding member of the Society of American Etchers. He was among the first etchers to use copper rather than iron plates. In 1926 he received a prize from the California Society of Etchers. Plasma etchers can operate in several modes by adjusting the parameters of the plasma. In 1895 his first book, "Dutch Etchers of the Seventeenth Century", was published.