National Museum of American History
Patent Model of a Typecasting and Composing Machine
Wescott, Charles S. · ca 1871
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a machine for the casting, dressing, and setting of type; the invention was granted patent number 115796. Type was set in a continuous line, to be divided up later by the operator.
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