Air Pump
notes: label: Description
content: The “Geryk” high-performance oil-sealed air pump was designed by Henry Albert Fleuss (1851-1932), an English engineer associated with the Pulsometer Engineering Co. of London and Reading. A tag on this example reads “Fleuss vacuum pump / GERYK / Trade mark / The Pulsometer Engineering Co. Ld. / Nine Elms Iron Works / Reading England.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Albert Fleuss, “Vapor-Pump,” U.S. Patent 873,528 (Dec. 10, 1907), assigned to Pulsometer Engineering Co., Ltd.
label: Description
content: Central Scientific Co., <i>Physical and Chemical Apparatus</i> (Chicago, 1909), p. 101.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: D. C. Public Schools
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.326943
label: catalog number
content: 326943
label: accession number
content: 264801
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Air Pump
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 33 1/2 in x 20 in x 16 in; 85.09 cm x 50.8 cm x 40.64 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 33 1/2 in x 19 7/8 in x 17 3/8 in; 85.09 cm x 50.4825 cm x 44.1325 cm