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Patent Model of a Typesetting Machine
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About this work
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a typesetting machine which was granted patent number 57034. Type was held in cases arranged radially around a rotating "receiver." As each letter was selected at a keyboard it was released to the receiver, lined up, and passed to a galley.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit linePatent Model of a Typesetting Machine. ca 1866. Baer, Charles. National Museum of American History. CC0.
