Dague's Road Scraper Model
date: label: Date made
content: 1879
label: patent date
content: 1879-12-30
name: label: maker
content: Dague, E. D.
notes: label: Description
content: This model depicts a road scraper manufactured by Dague's Grader Company, Danville, Illinois, and patented on the 30th Dec 1879 by E. D. Dague.
label: Description
content: This model is a demonstration model, presumably used as a selling tool. Company advertising claimed that “Dague's Celebrated Road Scraper and Leveller ...will do more work than FOUR ordinary Dump Scrapers, and will Leave the Surface Level, and only requires the services of One Man and one pair of horse to operate it with ease.”
label: Description
content: As the good roads movement gathered strength in the 1890s, a host of patent applications were received for machines that, using horses, helped maintain the surfaces of the nation's roadways.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Illinois, Danville
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: America on the Move
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content: Transportation
label: Exhibition
content: America On The Move
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of England D. Dague
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.321175
label: catalog number
content: 321175
label: accession number
content: 243133
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Model, Dague road scraper and leveler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: walnut (parts material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 12 in x 4 in; 27.94 cm x 30.48 cm x 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, box: 4 3/4 in x 12 in x 13 3/4 in; 12.065 cm x 30.48 cm x 34.925 cm