Ear Piercing Apparatus
name: label: maker
content: Greenough, John James
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for John James Greenough, “Apparatus for Piercing Ears and Inserting Ear-Rings,” U.S. Patent 248,855 (Nov. 1, 1881). Greenough (1812-1908) was a mechanic employed by the U.S. Patent Office. At the time of this invention he was a patent lawyer in Syracuse, N.Y.
topic: label: Subject
content: Patent Models
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04329
label: patent number
content: 248,855
label: catalog number
content: M-04329
label: accession number
content: 89797
objectType: label: Object Name
content: apparatus, ear piercing
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 12.065 cm x 8.89 cm x 8.89 cm