Patent Model of a Typesetting Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1876
label: patent date
content: 1876-03-21
name: label: maker
content: Dickinson, Charles W.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a typesetting machine; the invention was granted patent number 174901. The patent details a keyboard-operated typesetting machine that set type in a line and then broke the line into column lengths. Patentee Charles Dickinson was at some time a partner in the development of the Burr-Empire line of typesetting machines.
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content: Patent Models
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.174901
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.174901
label: patent number
content: 174901
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model
label: Object Name
content: machine, typesetting and composing
label: Object Name
content: Composing Machine
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: Composing Machine; Composing; Type-Setting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 cm x 20 cm x 31 cm; 14 3/16 in x 7 7/8 in x 12 3/16 in