Printing and folding machine / model

Description

Model of Foster's patent stereo web printing and folding machine, used in newspaper offices, made in the museum workshop, scale one third, 1885

Museum reference

T.1888.819

Collection

Industry and Commerce : Communications

Object name

Printing and folding machine / model

Production information

Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, Workshop, Modelmaker
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

1885

Materials

Metal

Associations

Patent holder: Messrs J. Forster and Sons
Preston, Lancashire, England, Northern Europe

Exhibitions

• Making It (08 Jul 2016)
  National Museum of Scotland

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Collection Story

On display

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