Suppository Machine
date: label: Date made
content: c.1937
name: label: maker
content: F.J. Stokes Machine Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Stokes' No. 11 "Rapid-Fire" Suppository Mold. Francis J. Stokes (1873-1955) graduated from Haverford College in 1894, spent a year apprenticing with a machinist in Philadelphia, and then bought the firm and renamed it the F. J. Stokes Machine Co. He introduced his first suppository machine (termed No. 10) to market in 1903, and the “Rapid Fire” a few years later.
label: Description
content: Ref: Francis J. Stokes, "suppository Machine," U.S. Patent 768,244 (August 23, 1903).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From Jenkins Laboratories
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06683
label: catalog number
content: M-06683
label: accession number
content: 199421
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Suppository Mold
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)