The "absolutely precise" metal signs are bought by professional locomotive model makers.

Take a step back to the 19th Century with innovations from Hagley Museum’s patent model collection. What is a patent model? From 1790 until about 1880, if you had an idea for a new product or a way to ...

Montmartre with Sacre Coeur in the Kemnitzer Paper Model Collection (courtesy of David A. Kemnitzer, architect; photo by National Building Museum staff) WASHINGTON, DC — Architect David Kemnitzer ...

Of the 10,000 patent models held in this museum, some 400 models are housed in and relate to the Graphic Arts Collection. These include models prepared for the printing, type, paper, and bookbinding ...

For much of the nineteenth century, inventors submitted a model with their patent application to the United States Patent Office. The National Museum of American History’s patent model collection ...

A collection of 300 model cars estimated to be worth £20,000 will go on sale at an auction next week. The cars were amassed over two decades by motoring fan Alan Barrett, who stored it at his home ...