Vacuum Casting Apparatus
name: label: maker
content: Ransom & Randolph
notes: label: Description
content: Elgin casting “pig” designed by Reuben Cleveland Brophy (1856-1940), a graduate of Rush Medical College and of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery. An inscription reads in part "RANSOM & RANDOLPH . . ."
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. Reuben C. Brophy,” Chicago Tribune (Dec. 23, 1940), p. 12.
label: Description
content: “Truman Cleveland Brophy,” in Prominent Men of the Great West (Chicago, 1902), pp. 80-84.
label: Description
content: Reuben C. Brophy, “Vacuum Casting Device,” U.S. Patent 1,030,868 (July 2, 1912), assignor to the Ransom & Randolph Co. of Toledo, Ohio. See also similar patents in England (1909), and Canada (1912).
label: Description
content: The Ransom & Randolph Co. ad for “The Elgin Vacuum Casting Apparatus” in The Dental Review 23 (1909).
label: Description
content: The Ransom & Randolph Co., Practical Manual of Dental Casting (Boston, 1913).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-08964
label: catalog number
content: M-08964
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Machine, Casting
label: Object Name
content: vacuum
label: Object Name
content: Machine, Casting, Pig
label: Other Terms
content: Machine, Casting; Machine, Casting, Pig; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 8 in x 12 in; 22.86 cm x 20.32 cm x 30.48 cm