National Museum of American History
Patent Model of a Type-Making Machine
Smith, John J. C. · ca 1864
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a type-making machine which was granted patent number 43649. The patent details a machine for sawing individual letters from cast-metal strip of letters. The strips were to be made by Smith's companion patent of the same date.
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