Air Pump
date: label: date made
content: late nineteenth century
name: label: maker
content: Queen and Company
notes: label: Description
content: James W. Queen & Co. introduced a “New Automatic Lever Air Pump” in the late 1880s, boasting that “all the working parts [are] constructed on the best mechanical principles, are simple in action, not likely to get out of order, and will give a vacuum equal to any mechanical pump made.” This example came from the Department of Physics at Wittenberg University. The lever is marked “QUEEN & CO. PHILA.” The cylinder head is marked “J. W. QUEEN & CO. PHILAD’A.”
label: Description
content: Ref: James W. Queen & Co., <i>Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Physical Instruments</i> (Philadelphia, 1888), pp. 30¼-30½.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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: 1979.1202.02
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1202.02
label: accession number
content: 1979.1202
label: catalog number
content: 79.1202.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: air pump
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 25 in x 25 in x 12 in; 63.5 cm x 63.5 cm x 30.48 cm