Stokes Tablet Machine
notes: label: Description
content: Francis J. Stokes (1873-1955) was a graduate of Haverford College who, after serving a year as an apprentice to Robert Shoemaker, a machinist in Philadelphia, purchased the firm and renamed it the F. J. Stokes Machine Company. Stokes developed a machine for making medical tablets in 1896 and marketed it as the Eureka tablet machine. An inscription on this example reads “STOKES / TABLET MACHINE / MODEL A / SERIAL A86055 / LOT A81565 / ...”
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: Pharmacy
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of George Washington University, School of Pharmacy; Accession 259201 (1964)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10931
label: accession number
content: 259201
label: catalog number
content: M-10931
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tablet Machine
label: Other Terms
content: Tablet Machine; Manufacturing and Dispensing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gray-blue (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 58 cm x 63 cm x 32.5 cm; 22 13/16 in x 24 13/16 in x 12 13/16 in