Eureka Tablet Machine
name: label: maker
content: F.J. Stokes Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: Francis J. Stokes (1873-1955) was a graduate of Haverford College who, after serving a year as an apprentice to Robert Shoemaker, a machinist in Philadelphia, purchased the firm and renamed it the F. J. Stokes Machine Company. Stokes developed a machine for making medical tablets in 1896 and marketed it as the Eureka tablet machine. This example is Serial Number C-11848.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Columbia University School of Pharmacy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06711
label: catalog number
content: M-06711
label: accession number
content: 201247
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tablet Press
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 17 in x 24 in; 38.1 cm x 43.18 cm x 60.96 cm