Lifting Pump
notes: label: Description
content: The University of Michigan moved to Ann Arbor in 1841, and began offering classes in natural philosophy (what we now call physics) in 1843. This lifting pump came from that school, and may have been used at an early date.
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin Pike, Jr., <i>Pike’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments</i> (New York, 1848), vol. 1, pp. 233-234.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319722
label: catalog number
content: 319722
label: accession number
content: 239024
objectType: label: Object Name
content: force pump
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overa14ll: 1 5/8 in; 4.1275 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 9 7/8 in x 3 3/4 in; 35.56 cm x 25.0825 cm x 9.525 cm