Depurator
date: label: Date made
content: 1869
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for William Curran, “Improved Depurator,” U.S. Patent 87,247 (Feb. 23, 1869). Depurator means one who, or that, cleanses.
label: Description
content: William Curran, of St. Louis, Mo., obtained another patent for a similar device several years later. See William Curran, “Improvement in Depurator-Baths,” U.S. Patent 180,238 (July 25, 1876).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0087.01
label: accession number
content: 1999.0087
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0087.01
label: patent number
content: 87,247
objectType: label: Object Name
content: depurator, patent model
label: Object Name
content: depurator, patent model (steam bath)
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27.5 cm x 15.3 cm x 22.7 cm; 10 13/16 in x 6 in x 8 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/4 in x 9 in x 6 in; 27.305 cm x 22.86 cm x 15.24 cm