Tablet Press
name: label: maker
content: Whitall Tatum Company
notes: label: Description
content: Iron pill press with “WHITALL TATUM / CO. / NEW YORK, PHIL’A / BOSTON” and “W. T. CO., / NO. 25 / TABLET MACHINE / PAT. / JULY 2ND ‘95” inscriptions. Charles Albert Tatum (1849-1920), the inventor, was president of Whitall Tatum Co.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles A. Tatum, “Tablet-Machine,” U.S. Patent 541,895 (July 2, 1895), assigned to Whitall, Tatum & Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 2012.0165.620
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.620
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tablet press
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/8 in x 4 7/8 in x 7 5/8 in; 26.3525 cm x 12.3825 cm x 19.3675 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 4 7/8 in x 7 1/4 in; 25.4 cm x 12.3825 cm x 18.415 cm