Patent Model - Ballot-Box
Maker and role
Joseph Hill (b.1827, d.1892), Patentee
Cannon and Hobbs, Assignee
Production date
Aug 06 1850
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Wood, brass
Measurements
4 1/2 x 10 x 4 1/2" (11.4 x 25.4 x 11.4cm)
Description
Hill's patent provides "a method of taking votes, which, while on the one hand it is in great measure free from liability to errors both of accident and design, is at the same time operated with much greater dispatch than is attainable by any of the modes now in common use." (Patent Number 7,545)
Collection
Object number
2015.14.82a,b
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