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Patent Model of a Type-Making Machine
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This patent model demonstrates an invention for a type-making machine which was granted patent number 43649. The patent details a machine for sawing individual letters from cast-metal strip of letters. The strips were to be made by Smith's companion patent of the same date.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit linePatent Model of a Type-Making Machine. ca 1864. Smith, John J. C.. National Museum of American History. CC0.
