Gasoline Pump, 1910
date: label: date made
content: ca 1910
notes: label: Description
content: The Tokheim Oil Tank and Pump Company, of Fort Wayne, Indiana produced this gas pump during the early 1900s. This moveable ability of the tank reflects the fact that before gas stations were a widespread phenomenon, many hardware stores sold gasoline to motorists. This mobile pump may have replaced the old system of buying gasoline by the bucketful in some stores.
label: Description
content: As Americans took to the wheel, they needed to buy gasoline-if they owned a gasoline powered car, rather than a steam or electric model. Entrepreneurs and inventors came up with technologies and systems in order to get gasoline to the consumers before there were a plethora of gas stations.
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content: Division of the History of Technology: Transportation, Road
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content: America on the Move
label: Exhibition
content: America On The Move
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: American Oil Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.326808
label: serial number
content: 30793
label: serial number
content: 30696
label: catalog number
content: 326808
label: accession number
content: 265699
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gas pump
label: Object Name
content: Pump, Gas
label: Object Name
content: pump, gasoline
label: Other Terms
content: Pump, Gas; Road
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (part: material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (part: material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 69 in x 40 in x 35 in; 175.26 cm x 101.6 cm x 88.9 cm