Patent Model of a Typesetting Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1855
label: patent date
content: 1855-10-23
name: label: maker
content: Loughborough, William S.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a typesetting machine which was granted patent number 13710. Type was stored in nearly vertical cells around a circulating wheel. A piece of type selected at the keyboard was pushed in from its cell, caught up by the wheel, and carried to a galley in front of the operator where the spacing was fine-tuned. The patent also covered arrangements for housing the kerned letter "j," and for correcting matter in the galley. The patent model is incomplete.
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.013710
label: patent number
content: 013710
label: accession number
content: 089797
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.013710
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model
label: Object Name
content: machine, typesetting
label: Object Name
content: Machine, Type Composing
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: Machine, Type Composing; Machine, Sorts, Composing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 cm x 30 cm x 23.5 cm; 5 1/2 in x 11 13/16 in x 9 1/4 in