Press, copy
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- OBJECT TYPE
- SCREW/MANUAL
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1988.0570.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL/ LEATHER COVERING ON HANDLE
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 62.0 cm
- Width
- 30.5 cm
- Height
- 44.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Printing
- Category
- Duplication
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
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Unknown - Function
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To copy a handwritten document by applying pressure to a sheet of tissue paper placed over the ink original. - Technical
-
Patented by James Watt in 1780, copy presses were once a common tool in offices, providing the simplest means of making copies of hand written documents. To copy a letter, a damp sheet of "onion skin" copy paper was placed over the freshly written page and then both were placed in the press. When squeezed together the thin, absorbent copy paper would pick up some of the ink from the letter. This reverse image of the text could be read correctly by viewing it through the back of the nearly transparent sheet. In the twentieth century copy presses were superceded by the use of carbon paper with typewriters and, later, by photographic copying methods. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- ON TOP OF PLATEN, MOSTLY ILLEGIBLE, CAN SEE '[?] & SON/ [?] RERS'
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- PAINTED BLACK, NOW MUCH WORN & CHIPPED, FADED GOLD & RED COLOURED TRIM ON TOP OF PLATEN/ REMAINS OF LEATHER ON HANDLE ARE BROWN & BLACK
- Decoration
- FADED GOLD-COLOURED LINE AROUND BASE/ ON TOP OF PLATEN IS GOLD-COLOURED LINE AROUND OUTER EDGE WITH THICKER GOLD LINE TO INSIDE OF IT,INNER LINE HAS RED DETAILING & SCROLLWORK
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Unknown Manufacturer, Press, copy, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 1988.0570, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1988.0570.001/
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