Patent model for paper-ruling machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1877
label: patent date
content: 1877-08-21
name: label: maker
content: Hickok, William O.
label: maker
content: Cooper, Albert
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for improvements principally to the pen cylinder and striker of ruling machines; the invention was granted patent number 194497. William O. Hickok (1815-1891) of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was in the bookbinding trade from about 1840. In 1852 he patented his first ruling machine, an improvement on the Hathaway machine then in use. In 1874, with the O-A Striker machine, he established the principles of all ruling machines to come.
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.194497
label: patent number
content: 194497
label: accession number
content: 089797
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.194497
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model; machine, paper ruling
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (part material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.5 cm x 18.7 cm x 29 cm; 8 7/16 in x 7 3/8 in x 11 7/16 in