Patent Model of a Typesetting Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1866
label: patent date
content: 1866-08-07
name: label: maker
content: Baer, Charles
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a typesetting machine which was granted patent number 57034. Type was held in cases arranged radially around a rotating "receiver." As each letter was selected at a keyboard it was released to the receiver, lined up, and passed to a galley.
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Patent Models
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.057034
label: patent number
content: 057034
label: accession number
content: 089797
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.057034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: machine, typesetting
label: Object Name
content: Type Composing
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: Type Composing; Machine, Sorts, Composing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 cm x 32 cm x 30 cm; 6 11/16 in x 12 5/8 in x 11 13/16 in