Drum Recorder
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on the bracket of this drum recorder reads “A. Hahl & Co. Baltimore, MD. 308.” That on the clock movement reads “Seth Thomas Thomaston Conn 29.” August Hahl was a German who arrived in the United States in 1870, and settled in Washington, D.C. He moved to Baltimore in 1874. Thomaston, once a section of Plymouth, Connecticut, was incorporated as a separate town in 1875.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.328881
label: accession number
content: 277916
label: catalog number
content: 328881
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drum Recorder
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 cm x 35.5 cm x 25.3 cm; 7 15/32 in x 13 31/32 in x 9 31/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/8 in x 14 in x 10 in; 18.0975 cm x 35.56 cm x 25.4 cm