Franklin Institute medal awarded to J. J. Clark
date: label: Date made
content: 1852
label: associated date
content: 1852
name: label: associated person
content: Clark, James J.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: In 1852, having applied for a patent for his new self-winding telegraph register, James J. Clark (1828-1919) showed an example of his invention at the annual fair of the Franklin Institute and received this medal. The obverse has portrait bust of Benjamin Franklin and “FRANKLIN INSTITUTE OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA / 1824.” The reverse has “REWARD OF SKILL AND INGENUITY” and “To / J. J. Clark / Philada Pa / For Self winding / Telegraph Register / 1852.” The following year, the Franklin Institute Committee of Science and the Arts examined Clark’s telegraph register in greater detail, and recommended that he be given a first prize.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Ref: “Report on James J. Clark’s Self-Winding Telegraph Register,” <i>Journal of the Franklin Institute</i> 57 (1854): 69-71.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
label: See more items in
content: Communications
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Mrs. W. S. Minnix
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.310422
label: catalog number
content: 310422
label: accession number
content: 119205
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Medal
label: Object Name
content: award
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 1/2 in x 2 7/8 in x 3 in; 1.27 cm x 7.3025 cm x 7.62 cm
label: Measurements
content: medal: 1/8 in x 2 in; .3175 cm x 5.08 cm