Air Pump
name: label: maker
content: E. S. Ritchie & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: This lever-action air pump with rectangular wooden base came from Wabash College, a school that boasted in the late 1870s that it had “Ritchie’s new air pumps.” The “E. S. Ritchie & Sons, Boston” inscription is that of an instrument firm that began trading as such in 1867.
label: Description
content: Ref: Wabash College, <i>Catalogue, 1879-80</i> (Crawfordsville, Ind.), p. 18.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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.323001
label: accession number
content: 249201
label: catalog number
content: 323001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: air pump