General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Steel/aluminium cylinders/relay/wood/wire/springs/rubber.

Dimensions

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

Length

69.5 cm

Width

56.0 cm

Height

95.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Printing

Category

Typesetting

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Galarneau

Country

United States of America

State/Province

New York

City

Rochester

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

EXAMPLE OF TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED IN CANADA TO PROVIDE BRAILLE TEXT IN FRENCH

Function

TO AUTOMATICALLY EMBOSS PAPER WITH BRAILLE CHARACTERS, AS DIRECTED BY A PERFORATED TAPE

Technical

THIS SYSTEM COULD SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE PRODUCTION OF BRAILLE TEXT, AS AN OPERATOR COULD INPUT IN ORDINARY ALPHA-NUMERIC LANGUAGE WHICH THE MACHINE WOULD CONVERT TO BRAILLE/ PRIOR TO THIS MOST BRAILLE TEXT HAD TO BEMANUALLY PUNCHED BY SPECIALLY TRAINED BRAILLE OPERATORS

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Stand reads: 'FLEXOWRITER & JUSTOWRITER DESK'/MODEL I/COMMERCIAL CONTROLS CORPORATION/ROCHESTER/NEW YORK/ Motor reads: 'SUPERIOR ELECTRIC/SLO-SYN/SYNCHRONOUS/STEPPING MOTOR/TYPE M092-FC09/200 02 IN./200 STEPS PER REV./2.5 V./4.6 A./DC H2/65`C RISE CLASS/BINSUL./IMPEDANCE PROTECTED THE SUPERIOR ELECTRIC COMPANY, BRISTOL,C.T./USA.'/Cylinder reads: 'NORTHERN ELECTRIC/NS 19262/ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR/6500 UF/75 VOC/DE 10-21-67'/ Other cylinder same but different date '9-18-67'/.

Missing

From CA of 05/26/1995 by Tony Missio: Undetermined

Finish

Machine is sitting on 4 steel legs/2 cylinders/blue motor/2 shiny aqua blue cylinders/wood with orange masonite on top/1 brailler/rubber belt.

Decoration

N/A