Patent Model of a Railway Ticket Printing and Registering Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1873
label: patent date
content: 1873-07-29
name: label: maker
content: Dyer, John
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a railway ticket printing and registering machine; the invention was granted patent number 141336. A roll of card blanks was pre-numbered and printed with the station name. This machine added the destination and date and cut off each ticket, while printing a record copy of the sale. It was an improvement on an earlier Dyer patent (1872, Patent 134042).
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.141336
label: accession number
content: 089797
label: patent number
content: 141336
label: patent number
content: 141336
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.141336
objectType: label: Object Name
content: apparatus, machine
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 cm x 11.8 cm x 9.5 cm; 8 1/4 in x 4 5/8 in x 3 3/4 in