Patent Model - Fare Register and Recorder
Maker and role
Joseph Corbett (b.1833, d.1908), Patentee
The Railway Register Manufacturing Company, Assignee
Production date
Sep 22 1885
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Iron, brass, paint, glass
Measurements
7 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 3" (19.1 x 29.2 x 7.6cm)
Description
Corbett's patent "relates more particularly to registers employed for counting or tallying the fares received by conductors or collectors on passenger cars or vehicles. Such machines, as is well known, are provided for the use of the conductor, and the rules of the company or owners of the cars or vehicles require that as each fare is received the conductor or collector must operate the register to record or tally it..." (Patent Number 326,720)
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Object number
2015.14.3554a-c
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