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- OBJECT TYPE
- PHOTO/COMPUTER/TEXT/NEG DISK
- DATE
- 1962
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1975.0602.001
- MANUFACTURER
- PHOTON INC.
- MODEL
- 540
- LOCATION
- Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 5479
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 4
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CASING, METAL & SYNTHETIC WORKING PTS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 139.5 cm
- Width
- 59.0 cm
- Height
- 114.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Printing
- Category
- Typesetting
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- PHOTON
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Massachusetts
- City
- Wilmington
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
TO AUTOMATICALLY SET TYPE ON FILM OR PAPER - Technical
-
EXAMPLE OF A PHOTOTYPESETTING MACHINE BASED ON A GLASS MATRIX DISC, THIS TYPE OF MACHINE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PHOTOTYPESETTING MACHINES TO BE TAPE DRIVEN - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- .1 INSIDE, PLATE 'PHOTON, INC./ 5479'/ PLATE ON A COMPONENT 'SCHEMATIC 2E-54 28/ MECHANICAL REV 27/ ELECTRICAL REV T', STAMPED ABOVE IS '5582'/ OTHER COMPONENT PLATES INCLUDE 'MAIN DRIVE MOTOR/ 2E-0688', 'BODINE ELECTRIC COMPANY/...VOLTS 115 AMPS 1.8/... 1/15/...A.C. MOTOR'/ 'RETURN CLUTCH/SOL.'/ 'SENSING PLATE/ SOL.'/ 'VARIABLE ESCAPEMENT/ 2B-0030'/.2 PANEL INCLUDESHEADINGS 'Font', 'Leading Counter', 'Line Counter', 'Lenses', 'Stop At End of Line', 'Leading Repeat', 'Continious Leading', 'Reverse Leading'/.3 ON DISC 'PHOTON, Inc./ DISC 2F-0078/ #1', ON CASE 'PHOTON, INC./ Special Characters S/ S Sanseri Extrabold/ *
- Missing
- 3 BUTTONS ON .2 DAMAGED From CA of 02/06/1995 by Tony Missio: Undetermined
- Finish
- .1-.2 GREY, SLIGHTLY PEBBLED FINISH WITH CHROME-LIKE HARDWARE/.3 GREY OUTER FINISH, SILVER-COLOURED & BLACK WORKINGS PTS WITH BLACK& MULTI-COLOURED WIRES/.4 BLACK & TRANSPARENT DISC, SILVER-COLOURED & BLACK CENTRE PIECES/ BOX VARNISHED WOOD WITH BRASS-COLOURED HARDWARE, GREY FOAM CUSHIONED AREAS INSIDE
- Decoration
- N/A
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PHOTON INC., Typesetter, after 1962, Artifact no. 1975.0602, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1975.0602.001/
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