Road Scraper Patent Model, 1892
date: label: date made
content: 1892
label: patent date
content: 1982-12-16
name: label: patentee
content: Western Wheeled Scraper Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a patent model for a road scraper assigned to the Western Wheeled Scraper Company in 1892.
label: Description
content: As the good roads movement gathered strength in the 1890s, inventors generated a host of patent applications for machines that improved roads using horse-drawn scrapers and graders.
topic: label: Subject
content: Patent Models
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.251194
label: catalog number
content: 251194
label: accession number
content: 48865
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Road Scraper
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 in x 6 in; 53.34 cm x 15.24 cm