Vacuum Casting Apparatus (2)
notes: label: Description
content: A label on the body of one example reads “MADE BY / THE RANSOM & RANDOLPH CO. / TOLDEDO, O., U.S.A. / PATENT PENDING.” An inscription on the dial reads “THE ELGIN / CASTING APPARATUS / . . .” The form was devised by Reuben Cleveland Brophy (1856-1940), a graduate of the Rush Medical College and of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery who invented and manufactured dental supplies, and who spent his later years in Elgin, Ill. The Elgin Dental Specialty Co. was displaying this type of casting apparatus by 1912.
label: Description
content: Ref: Reuben C. Brophy, “Vacuum Casting Device,” U.S. Patent 1,030,868 (July 2, 1912), assigned to the Ransom & Randolph Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.291116.153
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: catalog number
content: 291116.153
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vacuum casting apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in x 13 in; 22.225 cm x 19.05 cm x 33.02 cm