John M. Joy Teletypewriter Patent Model
notes: label: Description
content: This teletypewriter model was made by John M. Joy of New York, New York and received patent number 676,137 on June 11, 1901. The patent was for improvements to a printing-telegraph receiver, “to provide a printing-telegraph receiver adapted to print lines transversely on a page of paper that can be operated with a minimum of power and at a high rate of speed, and one that is practically useful in connection with the distribution of news from a central station.” There is a label on the model that reads, “This unit is the property of the Page Machine Co., and is never sold.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Typewriters
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Wallace M. Yater, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.320954
label: catalog number
content: 320954
label: accession number
content: 243599
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teletypewriter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 14 in x 7 in; 26.67 cm x 35.56 cm x 17.78 cm