Still
date: label: Date made
content: 1787
name: label: owner
content: Washington, George
label: maker
content: R. Bush and Company
notes: label: Description
content: The I.R.S. confiscated this large copper still from a bootlegger in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1940. It measures 26 inches diameter, stands 38 inches high, and is inscribed “R. BUSH & CO. Bristol 1787.” There may have been still of this sort in the distillery that George Washington established at Mount Vernon in the 1790s. We have not, however, found any connection between Washington and this particular still.
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from U.S. Treasury Department Internal Revenue Service
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.326999
label: catalog number
content: 326999
label: accession number
content: 267815
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Still
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper (still material)
label: Measurements
content: tube: 36 in x 5 in; 91.44 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: upper dome: 14 in x 15 in; 35.56 cm x 38.1 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 96.5 cm x 66 cm; 38 in x 26 in
label: Measurements
content: boiler: 20 in x 26 in; 50.8 cm x 66.04 cm
label: Measurements
content: crate: 54 in x 40 in x 56 in; 137.16 cm x 101.6 cm x 142.24 cm