Miles M. Bartholomew Stenograph Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: 1879
label: patent date
content: 1879-05-20
name: label: inventor
content: Bartholomew, Miles M.
notes: label: Description
content: This stenograph patent model accompanied Miles M. Bartholomew’s patent application that received patent number 215,554 on May 20th, 1879. The patent was described as “the provision, in a stenographic machine, of two sets of keys, preferably five on each set, one key for the thumb and one for each of the fingers.” Each key was related to a marker to make an impression on or perforation in the paper spooled from the roller at the head of the model. Stenotype machines do not have a full alphanumeric keyboard, instead they write in shorthand with multiple key depressions that produce syllables or words.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Illinois, Belleville
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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.308629
label: catalog number
content: 308629
label: patent number
content: 215,554
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 215,554
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model, typewriter
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: patent model, typewriter; shorthand machine; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood: walnut (part: base material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (part: mechanism material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 9 in x 9 13/16 in; 9.525 cm x 22.86 cm x 24.892 cm