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Geared Steering Wheel, Patent Model
From the collection of National Museum of American History. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Nothing is known about this steering-wheel model. It is presumed to be a patent model because of its size, but its inventor and date are unknown. It is similar to many geared steering arrangements used on fishing boats and yachts from about the 1860s into the turn of the 1900s.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineGeared Steering Wheel, Patent Model. ca 1875. National Museum of American History. CC0.
