Patent model for music type
date: label: date made
content: ca 1868
label: patent date
content: 1868-06-16
name: label: patentee
content: Balch, Edward L.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a method of printing large music charts for educational purposes; the invention was granted patent number 78855. The type was made of wood. Each note came with its part of the staff lines, and with shoulders that interlocked and overlapped with those of its neighbors, to produce a continuous line of music.
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.078855
label: patent number
content: 078855
label: accession number
content: 089797
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.078855
objectType: label: Object Name
content: manufacture, music type
label: Object Name
content: Paper
label: Object Name
content: music printing
label: Object Name
content: music printing quoins
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.6 cm x 19 cm x 9.4 cm; 2 3/16 in x 7 1/2 in x 3 11/16 in