Drug Mill
name: label: maker
content: Enterprise Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on the knob of this drug mill reads “Pat. Oct 21, '73.” An inscription on the handle reads “The Enterprise MFG. Co. Philadelphia.” John G. Baker (1833-1901), the inventor of this drug mill, was a vice president of the Enterprise Manufacturing Co., and recipient of the John Scott Legacy Medal.
label: Description
content: Ref: John G. Baker, “Improvement in Grinding-Mills,” U.S. Patent 143,867 (Oct. 21, 1873), assigned to The Enterprise Manufacturing Company.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Wisconsin, School of Pharmacy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10833.01
label: catalog number
content: M-10833.01
label: accession number
content: 254352
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drug-Mill Machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic, porcelain (knob material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (machine material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)