Forcing and Lifting Pump
notes: label: Description
content: The University of Michigan moved to Ann Arbor in 1841, and began classes in natural philosophy (what we now call physics) two years later. This forcing and lifting pump came from that school, and may have been used at an early date.
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin Pike, Jr., <i>Pike’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments</i> (New York, 1848), vol. 1, pp. 233-235.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the University of Michigan Department of Phhysics through Mr. Arthur Dockrill
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319721
label: catalog number
content: 319721
label: accession number
content: 239024
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lifting and force pump
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 1/2 in x 5 in; 46.99 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 1/4 in x 8 3/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 48.895 cm x 21.2725 cm x 13.335 cm