Wyeth Rotary Tablet Press
date: label: Date made
content: c.1885
name: label: user
content: Wyeth Laboratories
label: maker
content: Wyeth Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: John and Frank Wyeth opened a drugstore with a small research lab in Philadelphia in 1860 and supplied medicines to the Union Army during the Civil War. Henry Bowers, a Wyeth employee, developed a rotary compressed tablet machine, one of the first in the United States, in 1872. This automated tablet press was used at the Wyeth and Brother factory in the 1880s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From Wyeth Laboratories
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07344
label: catalog number
content: M-07344
label: patent number
content: 215,452
label: patent number
content: 251,678
label: accession number
content: 220034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Rotary Tablet Press
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (?? material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (box material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 47 in x 30 in x 26 in; 119.38 cm x 76.2 cm x 66.04 cm