Patent Model of a Book Clamp
date: label: date made
content: ca 1865
label: patent date
content: 1865-10-24
name: label: maker
content: Jones, Joshua W.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a clamp for holding books while they were backed; the invention was granted patent number 50597. Joshua Wiestling Jones (born 1831) was apprenticed to the printing and binding trades. For a time he worked with the binder W. O. Hickok and helped in building Hickok's prototype paper-ruling machine. Later he worked in public printing, particularly at the state printing house in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Jones pioneered the use of electric arc lighting in Harrisburg, one of the first American cities to adopt the system.
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.050597
label: patent number
content: 050597
label: accession number
content: 089797
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.050597
objectType: label: Object Name
content: manufacture, book clamp
label: Object Name
content: Clamp
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: Clamp; Bookbinding
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 cm x 16 cm x 13 cm; 7 1/2 in x 6 5/16 in x 5 1/8 in