Patent Model of a Typesetting Machine
National Museum of American History

Patent Model of a Typesetting Machine

De La Pena, M. · ca 1870

metal (overall material)
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

This patent model demonstrates an invention for a typesetting machine which was granted patent number 108980. The patent details a keyboard typesetter with a "branching gravitation type-slide." Patentee De la Pena was an Argentinian living in New York City.

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