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. An inscription on this example reads "F. J. Stokes Machine Co. Eureka Patented Philadelphia."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0100.114
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0100.114
label: accession number
content: 2005.0100
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tablet Machine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 3/8 in x 17 in x 17 1/2 in; 61.9125 cm x 43.18 cm x 44.45 cm