Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This patent model demonstrates an invention for a method of producing a lithographic printing surface by coating a metal plate or cylinder with tin, by electrolytic or chemical means. The invention was granted patent number 160177. (Friedlander and Moeller were from Leipzig, Saxony.)
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Friedlaender, Julius
- Moeller, Peter Korfitz
- date made
- ca 1875
- patent date
- 1875-02-23
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 cm x 25.5 cm x 33 cm; 13/16 in x 10 1/16 in x 13 in
- Object Name
- manufacture, printing surfaces
- printing surfaces, lithographic
- plate holder, stereotype
- plate, stereotype
- Object Type
- Patent Model
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