Pill Machine
name: label: maker
content: Arthur Colton Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The “ARTHUR COLTON” inscription on this pill machine refers to Arthur Colton (1858-1948), an English machinist who immigrated to the United States in 1881, settled in Detroit in 1882, and established the Arthur Colton Co., a firm that specialized in pharmaceutical machinery.
label: Description
content: Ref: Arthur Colton, “Pill-Forming Machine,” U.S. Patent 687,199 (Nov. 26, 1901).
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The S.E. Massengill Co. through Mr. Frank W. DeFriece, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06784
label: catalog number
content: M-06784
label: accession number
content: 203204
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pill Machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (brass screw plate material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (?? material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (brass pill plate, reppled material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (brass plate material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (pill plate slide material)