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Patent Model for a Card Printing and Numbering Machine
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This patent model demonstrates an invention for a card printing and numbering machine which was granted patent number 21418. The patent describes a little press with a numbering wheel, designed primarily for the production of railroad tickets. Hill was a pioneer in numbering machines. His city, Buffalo, N.Y., became a center of the rail ticket business.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit linePatent Model for a Card Printing and Numbering Machine. ca 1858. Hill, George J.. National Museum of American History. CC0.
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