Mortising Machine Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: 1807
label: date made
content: 1907
notes: label: Description
content: This is a patent model (USX772I1) of a mortising machine. The model was patented by Simeon Glover and David Parmalee, both of Newtown, Connecticut, on June 8, 1907.
label: Description
content: A mortising machine is a woodworking machine designed to cut square or rectangular holes (called mortises) into a piece of wood. These holes are usually made so that another piece of wood with a tenon (a projecting tab) can fit into them, together forming a mortise-and-tenon joint, one of the strongest and oldest woodworking joints.
label: Description
content: It was made for the Columbian Exposition in 1893. The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.309168
label: catalog number
content: 309168
label: accession number
content: 89797
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mortising Machine
label: Object Name
content: Mortising Machine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall - from catalog card: 4 in x 5 in; 10.16 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/8 in x 8 in x 5 1/8 in; 20.6375 cm x 20.32 cm x 13.0175 cm