Patent Model for an Ellipsographic Copying Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1842
label: patent date
content: 1842-12-31
name: label: maker
content: Carpenter, Luman
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a carpenter's type-cutter and protractor; the invention was granted patent number 2894. The cutter and protractor was a machine for cutting multiple copies from a single pattern. Typically, it was to be used in making wood type, which could be enlarged or reduced, extended or compressed, thrown into perspective, or turned into "grotesque type of any given fashion from the same plain pattern."
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.002894
label: patent number
content: 002894
label: accession number
content: 089797
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.002894
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Machine, Engraving
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: Machine, Engraving; Pantograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 38.7 cm x 22.7 cm x 22.7 cm; 15 1/4 in x 8 15/16 in x 8 15/16 in