Patent model for process for preparing autographic stencils
National Museum of American History

Patent model for process for preparing autographic stencils

Allen, Jerome · ca 1879

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

This patent model demonstrates an invention for preparing paper stencils by coating paper with a gummy solution such as collodion, and then writing on it with sulphuric acid or another corrosive liquid; the invention was granted patent number 211682.

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