Weber Road Scraper
date: label: date made
content: 1879
label: patent date
content: 1879-06-17
name: label: inventor
content: Weber, George J.
notes: label: Description
content: George J. Weber submitted this model for an “improvement in wheeled scrapers” that received patent number 216,588 on June 17, 1879. The road scraper was horse drawn and self-dumping.
label: Description
content: As the good roads movement gathered strength in the 1890s, a host of patent applications were received for machines that, using horses, helped maintain the surfaces of the nation's roadways.
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Missouri, Boonville
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Society for the Oldest Inhabitants of Washington, D.C.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.329174
label: catalog number
content: 329174
label: accession number
content: 277275
label: patent number
content: 216,588
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model, road scraper
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)