Gammeter Multigraph printing machine
Gammeter Multigraph printing machine
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- Description (Brief)
- This Gammeter Multigraph No. 4, with a separate bank of type, was made by The American Multigraph Company in about 1908. The Multigraph (with table) has a height of 47 inches a width of 29 inches and a depth of 19 inches; its type bank has a height of 11.5 inches a width of 19 inches and a depth of 10 inches.
- The Multigraph was an office printing machine invented in 1902 by H. C. Gammeter, a typewriter salesman. The machine printed either from short type with a specially shaped body, which slid into slots on the printing drum, or from curved plates. The impression was made with printing ink or, for a better facsimile of typewriting, through a ribbon.
- Donated by Richard Stevans, 1971.
- Citation: Elizabeth Harris, "Printing Presses in the Graphic Arts Collection," 1996.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Machine, Printing Press
- machine, printing, multigraph
- press, printing
- Gammeter Multigraph printing machine
- printing machine
- Other Terms
- Machine, Printing Press; Office Machine
- Date made
- 1908
- date made
- ca 1908
- maker
- American Lithograph Company
- American Lithograph Company
- place made
- United States: Ohio, Cleveland
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 47 in x 29 in x 19 in; 119.38 cm x 73.66 cm x 48.26 cm
- overall: 47 in x 29 in x 19 in; 119.38 cm x 73.66 cm x 48.26 cm
- overall: 47 in x 29 in x 19 in; 119.38 cm x 73.66 cm x 48.26 cm
- ID Number
- GA.23342.01
- accession number
- 1971.297032
- 297032
- catalog number
- 23342.01
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Printing Presses in the Graphic Arts Collection
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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