Object Details
- Dickinson, Charles W.
- Description (Brief)
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ca 1876
- patent date
- 1876-03-21
- ID Number
- GA.89797.174901
- accession number
- 89797
- catalog number
- GA*89797.174901
- patent number
- 174901
- Object Name
- patent model
- machine, typesetting and composing
- Composing Machine
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- Other Terms
- Composing Machine; Composing; Type-Setting
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 36 cm x 20 cm x 31 cm; 14 3/16 in x 7 7/8 in x 12 3/16 in
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Patent Models, Graphic Arts
- Work
- Communications
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Patent Models
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1072066
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-31f3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
