Screw Press
name: label: maker
content: Hunt, R. Finley
notes: label: Description
content: R. Finley Hunt (ca. 1819-1898) was an American dentist who, in the early years of the Civil War, came up with a design for a flying machine. Later, while living in Washington, D.C., he designed a process and apparatus for softening and molding celluloid for making dentures. This is his patent model.
label: Description
content: Ref: R. Finley Hunt, “Processes and Apparatus for Softening and Molding Celluloid,” U.S. Patent 162,752 (May 4, 1875).
label: Description
content: Charles Hunter, <i>Mechanical Dentistry</i> (Philadelphia, 1878), Chapter XIII, “Celluloid.”
label: Description
content: "Dr. R. Finley Hunt Dead," Washington Post (May 24, 1898), p. 7.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.89797.01
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: catalog number
content: 89797.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Screw Press
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: frame: 28 cm x 19 cm x 7 cm; 11 in x 7 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: "tee" handle: 27.5 mm x 19 mm; 1 1/16 in x 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: jacket: 34 mm x 118 mm; 1 5/16 in x 4 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall; tag: 1/4 in x 3 1/8 in x 3 1/8 in; .635 cm x 7.9375 cm x 7.9375 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; screw press: 11 in x 10 3/4 in x 4 in; 27.94 cm x 27.305 cm x 10.16 cm