Breast Pipe and Nipple Shell
date: label: patent date
content: 1858-11-16
notes: label: Description
content: Thomas Lewis of Malden, Massachusetts submitted this glass "breast pipe and nipple shell" with his application for a patent. Lewis's patent consisted of adding a short glass "neck" to an ordinary glass nipple shell. The glass neck could be fitted to a flexible rubber tube and mouth piece to convert the device to a breast pipe or pump when needed. Lewis wrote, "While traveling or at any other time the shell may be worn and serve the purpose of an ordinary nipple shell and at the same time it is always ready to be used as a pump or breast pipe when required. It is economical in its first cost and entirely supersedes the necessity of an extra instrument or pump to be applied and used when required. "
label: Description
content: Ref: Thomas Lewis, “Breast Pump,” U.S. Patent 22,080 (November 16, 1858).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04335
label: catalog number
content: M-04335
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: US22080A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: infant feeder, patent model
label: Object Name
content: breast pump, patent model
label: Object Name
content: patent model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (?? material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (label material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 4 7/8 in; 3.175 cm x 12.3825 cm