Edson Pressure Recording Gauge
name: label: maker
content: Edson, Jarvis Bonesteel
notes: label: Description
content: One inscription on this recording pressure gauge reads "J. B. EDSON / MAKER / NEW YORK / 2848.” Another reads “THE EDSON RECORDING & ALARM-GAUGE COMPANY – NEW YORK.” Relevant patents are dated May 8, 1888; Aug. 3, 1869; Dec. 16, 1873; Aug. 3, 18--?; and Feb. 29, 1876. Jarvis Bonesteel Edson (1845-1911) was an American mechanical engineer who was awarded a John Scott Medal in 1894.
label: Description
content: Ref: Report of the Committee of Science and the Arts of the Franklin Institute. “The Edson Pressure Recording Gauge,” <i>The Manufacturer and Builder</i> (March 1894): 58-59.
label: Description
content: “Jarvis B. Edson Dead,” <i>New York Times</i> (Jan. 27, 1911), p. 11.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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.325692
label: catalog number
content: 325692
label: accession number
content: 257690
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pressure recording gauge
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 9 in; 27.94 cm x 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/4 in x 9 1/4 in; 28.575 cm x 23.495 cm