Pick Counter
date: label: Date made
content: 1900-1950
name: label: engineer
content: Suter, Alfred
notes: label: Description
content: Brass pick (thread) counter with an “ALFRED SUTER, N.Y.” inscription. Alfred Suter (1880-1947) was born in Switzerland, came to the United States at a young age, and became a successful textile engineer. One pick counter that Suter introduced to market in 1922 had a lens so designed that “the operator is not required to put his eye directly on the glass, and inspection can be made at any convenient distance from the sample.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Pick Counter,” <i>Textile World</i> 61 (Nov. 18, 1922): 65.
label: Description
content: “Alfred Suter,” New York Times (Oct. 25, 1947), p. 19.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: engineer
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0234.08
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0234.08
label: accession number
content: 2017.0234
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pick counter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)