George W. N. Yost Typewriter Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: 1889
label: patent date
content: 1889-04-23
name: label: inventor
content: Yost, George W. N.
notes: label: Description
content: This typewriter patent model was used by George W.N. Yost in his patent application that received patent number 401,990 on April 23rd 1889. The patent covered a variety of improvements in typewriting machines, including allowing a user to supply an omission or make a correction in the printing, and an indicator for to alert the typist when they were reaching the end of a line.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Typewriters
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content: Computers & Business Machines
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.308637
label: catalog number
content: 308637
label: patent number
content: 401,990
label: patent number
content: 401,990
label: accession number
content: 89797
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model, typewriter
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: typewriter; patent model, typewriter; Standard; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 12 in x 10 in; 24.13 cm x 30.48 cm x 25.4 cm