Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This patent model demonstrates an invention for rubber plates in which a relief-printing plate of vulcanized rubber was molded directly from an intaglio--but right-reading--image etched into stone or metal. This invention was granted patent number 154230; the model consists of two mounted rubber plates.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Dickson, John
- date made
- ca 1874
- patent date
- 1874-08-18
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.4 cm x 9.2 cm x 5.3 cm; 15/16 in x 3 5/8 in x 2 1/16 in
- Object Name
- manufacture, rubber plates or dies
- Machine, Dressing
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- Other Terms
- Machine, Dressing; Type Founding
