General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

CAST IRON

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

53.0 cm

Width

29.0 cm

Height

36.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Printing

Category

Duplication

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

STANDARD

Country

Canada

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Manitoba

Period

USED IN THE EARLI 1900'S

Canada

Used in the early 1900's at St. Andrew's lock and dam, Lockport, Manitoba.

Function

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 In the twentieth century copy presses were superceded by the use of carbon paper with typewriters and, later, by photographic copying methods.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

WORN & FADED WHITE & RED DECAL READS: `Standard'/ GOLDEN DECAL ON ONE SIDE OF HUB: `5'

Missing

N/A

Finish

BLACK

Decoration

N/A