Natural Resources
The natural resources collections offer centuries of evidence about how Americans have used the bounty of the American continent and coastal waters. Artifacts related to flood control, dam construction, and irrigation illustrate the nation's attempts to manage the natural world. Oil-drilling, iron-mining, and steel-making artifacts show the connection between natural resources and industrial strength.
Forestry is represented by saws, axes, a smokejumper's suit, and many other objects. Hooks, nets, and other gear from New England fisheries of the late 1800s are among the fishing artifacts, as well as more recent acquisitions from the Pacific Northwest and Chesapeake Bay. Whaling artifacts include harpoons, lances, scrimshaw etchings in whalebone, and several paintings of a whaler's work at sea. The modern environmental movement has contributed buttons and other protest artifacts on issues from scenic rivers to biodiversity.
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Patent Model of a Book-stitching Machine
- Description (Brief)
- This patent model demonstrates an invention for a machine for sewing books with two needles and an intermediate looper. The invention was granted patent number 250990.
- date made
- ca 1881
- patent date
- 1881-12-13
- maker
- Smyth, David McConnel
- ID Number
- GA.89797.250990
- patent number
- 250990
- accession number
- 089797
- catalog number
- GA*89797.250990
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Patent Model of a Hand Stamp
- Description (Brief)
- This patent model demonstrates an invention for a self-inking hand stamp which was granted patent number 21980.
- Date made
- 1858
- date made
- ca 1858
- patent date
- 1858-11-02
- maker
- Phelps, James N.
- ID Number
- GA.89797.021980
- accession number
- 89797
- patent number
- 021980
- catalog number
- GA*89797.021980
- patent number
- 021980
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Patent Model for a Card Gauge for Platen Printing Press
- Description (Brief)
- This patent model demonstrates an invention for a card guage for a platen printing press; the invention was granted patent number 145101. This invention provided a card feeder for Golding's Pearl press, which was covered by a patent of 1871 taken out by William L. Balch and assigned to Golding and his partner Edward Dennison (Patent 118182). William Golding (1845–1916) was apprenticed to a printer at the age of 15, and set up The Printer Manufactory Company at 23 with his partner, Edward Dennison. The company at first supplied stamps and seals and other stationery goods, but soon moved into the manufacture of small presses for amateurs, such as the Pearl, and then full-sized jobbing presses. Two years after Golding's death, the company was sold to the American Type Founders Company, which continued the manufacture of his presses for some years.
- date made
- ca 1873
- patent date
- 1873-11-02
- inventor
- Golding, William H.
- maker
- Golding, William H.
- ID Number
- 1996.0062.08
- catalog number
- 1996.0062.08
- patent number
- 145101
- accession number
- 1996.0062
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Patent Model for a Double Cylinder Flatbed Printing Press
- Description (Brief)
- This patent model demonstrates an invention for various improvements on the English presses of Applegath, Napier, and others, especially methods of stopping and reversing the press bed in its travel and of raising the impression cylinders to allow the bed to pass underneath. The invention was granted patent number 2629.
- This was the patent for Hoe's Pony press, built specifically for the New York Sun to print 5-6,000 impressions per hour. Richard March Hoe (1812-1886) was the son of Robert Hoe, founder of the original company, which he took over in 1833 after his father's death. Among many outstanding inventions, his most famous press was the Lightning of 1846. He was also known for solicitous management of his employees, for whom he set up set up a free but compulsory apprentice school.
- Location
- Currently not on view (printing press fragment)
- date made
- ca 1842
- patent date
- 1842-05-20
- patentee
- Hoe, Richard March
- maker
- Hoe, Richard March
- ID Number
- GA.11023
- catalog number
- GA*11023
- accession number
- 48865
- patent number
- 002629
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Patent Model for Bed-and-Platen Printing Press
- Description (Brief)
- This patent model demonstrates an invention for a double bed-and-platen power press with a frisket at each end and is considered an unnumbered patent. The bed was raised by toggles beneath against the fixed platen. This patent provided the basis for the single-ended Adams Power Press, a well-loved iron machine later produced by R. Hoe & Co. In the 1870s it was still considered to produce finer letterpress work than any other machine on the market. It was pre-eminently a book press. Isaac Adams (1803-1883), with no schooling but ample inventive genius, introduced his power press at the age of 25 and derived his living from its success.
- Date made
- 1830
- ca 1830
- patent date
- 1830-10-04
- maker
- Adams, Isaac
- ID Number
- GA.11024
- accession number
- 48865
- catalog number
- GA*11024
- patent number
- 6178X
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Patent Model of a Book-stitching Machine
- Description (Brief)
- This patent model demonstrates an invention for a machine for sewing books using a double-loop stitch. The invention was granted patent number 250991.
- date made
- ca 1881
- patent date
- 1881-12-13
- maker
- Smyth, David McConnel
- ID Number
- GA.89797.250991
- patent number
- 250991
- accession number
- 089797
- catalog number
- GA*89797.250991
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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