Pill Machine
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content: Pill machine designed by John Cooper of Philadelphia. John Cooper & Co., of New York, exhibited a “reversible pill machine, capable of making four sizes of pills,” at the American Pharmaceutical Association meeting of 1874.
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content: Ref: John Cooper, “Improvement in Machines for Cutting and Shaping Pills,” U.S. Patent 132,200 (Oct. 15, 1872).
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content: This object is one of 39 objects from the Estate of Robert W. Vinson donated to the Smithsonian in 1958. Robert William Vinson (1872-1958), known as “Doc” or “Doc Willie” Vinson, ran Vinson’s Pharmacy in Rockville, Maryland, from the early 1900s until 1957. The store was built in the 1880’s and located on the corner of Montgomery Avenue and Perry Street, across from the Montgomery County Court House, and was reported to be a popular gathering place for local politicians. It closed after Mr. Vinson’s death and many objects and furnishings, some dating to the years prior to Mr. Vinson’s ownership, were donated to the Montgomery County Historical Society Stonestreet Museum, as well as to the Smithsonian. An ornate 1914 soda fountain from the drugstore was installed in the Rockville public library. Highlights in the Smithsonian collection include glass apothecary bottles, a "Konseal" Filling and Closing Apparatus, and two pharmacy counter displays: “Munyon’s Homeopathic Home Remedies” and “German Household Dyes.”
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content: Reference: Buglass, Ralph. Rockville, 2020. Print. (Images of America Series)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of Robert Vinson, through Mr J. Vinson Peter
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07376
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content: M-07376
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content: 220980
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pill machine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 12 in x 3 7/8 in; 4.445 cm x 30.48 cm x 9.8425 cm