George W. N. Yost Typewriter Patent Model
date: label: patent date
content: 1889-07-30
name: label: inventor
content: Yost, George W. N.
notes: label: Description
content: This typewriter patent model was used by George W.N. Yost in his patent application that received patent number 408,061 on July 30th, 1889. The patent claimed several improvements to typewriter machines including a combination of the carriage and line-spacing apparatus with a lever used for line and letter spacing, the “combination of two extra key levers and connecting rods with the platen transverse reciprocating apparatus of a type-writing machine and a series of key-levers for operating the type-bars located between said extra key-levers.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Typewriters
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content: Computers & Business Machines
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.308638
label: catalog number
content: 308638
label: patent number
content: 408061
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 408,061
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model, typewriter
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: patent model, typewriter; typewriter; Standard; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 15 1/2 in x 10 in; 27.94 cm x 39.37 cm x 25.4 cm