Patent Model - Machine for Printing Railroad and Other Tickets
Maker and role
Richard Hoe, Patentee
Production date
Mar 08 1859
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Steel, iron, brass, wood
Measurements
14 x 12 x 14 1/2" (35.6 x 30.5 x 36.8cm)
Description
Hoe's patented invention "consists in printing railroad and other tickets on a strip of roll of paper by types, or stereotype-plates, or solid raised or sunken letter, or any combination of them, in a revolving cylinder and numbering said tickets with successive numbers by a registering apparatus, and then cutting them from the roll and depositing them in a receptacle in numerical order." (Patent Number 23,172)
Collection
Object number
2015.14.257a,b
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