Cylinder printing press and embossing machine
date: label: Date made
content: Patent Date 1856
label: Date made
content: circa 1856
label: patent date
content: April 29, 1856
name: label: maker
content: Lowe, Samuel W.
notes: label: Description
content: A D-cylinder press adaptable for printing the relief plates covered by a Lowe patent of 1855 (Patent 13,585), as well as ordinary type and engraved plates. Later in 1856 Lowe took out a patent for his more famous portable press with conical roller (Patent 15,428).</I>
label: Description
content: Harris, Elizabeth M. <I>Patent Models in the Graphic Arts Collection.</I> Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 1997.
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: Graphic Arts
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content: Work
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content: Communications
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.014789
label: accession number
content: 089797
label: patent number
content: 014789
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.014789
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Patent Model
label: Object Name
content: Press, printing
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 9 7/16 in x 4 13/16 in; 12.7 cm x 23.99995 cm x 12.29995 cm