Patent Model - Improvement in Railroad Revolving Time-Table
Maker and role
Aaron Vancleve (b.1806, d.1880), Patentee
Production date
Apr 27 1869
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Brass, glass
Measurements
4 x 12 1/2" (10.2 x 31.8cm)
Description
Vancleve's patent is an instrument "in which a clock or other time-keeper is combined with one or more revolving pointers, representing a train or trains running in one direction, and one or more pointers representing a train or trains running in the contrary direction, and arranged in accordance with the graduations of the clock-dial and with the running-time of the trains..." (Patent Number 89,524)
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Object number
2015.14.1004a,b
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