Pike Air Pump
name: label: user
content: Bloomfield-Mespo School District
label: maker
content: Pike, Jr., Benjamin
notes: label: Description
content: Double-barrel, table-top air pump with a “BENJN PIKE JR. / 234 BROADWAY / NEW YORK” inscription on an ivory tag. Benjamin Jr. (1808–1864) opened his own shop in the early 1840s, but did not explain which instruments were made by craftsmen working for him, which were made in workshops and factories elsewhere in the United States, and which were made abroad.
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin Pike Jr., <i>Pike’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments</i> (New York, 1856), vol. 2, p. 282.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
label: used
content: United States: Ohio, North Bloomfield
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard J. Zitto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0235.53
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0235.53
label: accession number
content: 2010.0235
objectType: label: Object Name
content: air pump
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ivory (?) (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 13 in x 10 in; 38.1 cm x 33.02 cm x 25.4 cm