Pressure Cooker
date: label: date made
content: ca 1953
name: label: maker
content: National Presto Industries
notes: label: Description
content: Pressure cooker for home canning and cooking.
label: Description
content: A. Heavy cast aluminum cylindrical container, bail handle, wire with black painted wooden grip. Six wingnuts around the rim to hold the cooker cover in place. A loose inside panel (C) is perforated with 10 circular holes, sits on interior bottom.
label: Description
content: B. Cover is slightly domed with flange to sit inside top of cylinder. Topped with two wooden knob vertical handles on either side, pressure gauge in center of cover, encased in red metal, two other metal gauges on top. Top of cover is debossed: "NATIONAL/PRESSURE COOKER/EAU CLAIRE WIS./12” has arrow that corresponds with engraved arrow on container.
label: Description
content: National Presto Cooker Recipe Book, copyrighted 1953, in Object Document File (for models 603, 604, and 606). Mentions 4 patent numbers below.
label: Description
content: 2218188, October 15, 1940, Edward H. Wittenberg, Eau Claire, WI, for “Pressure cooker”
label: Description
content: 2297378, September 29, 1942, Edward H. Wittenberg, Eau Claire, WI, for “Pressure control and indicator gauge”
label: Description
content: 2429149, October 14, 1947, Edward H. Wittenberg, Eau Claire, WI, for “Pressure release device”
label: Description
content: 2627997, February 10, 1953, Edward H. Wittenberg, Eau Claire, WI, assignor for National Pressure Cooker Company, Eau Claire, WI, for “Safety lock for pressure cookers”
label: Description
content: Maker is National Pressure Cooker Company, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, founded in 1905, as the "Northwestern Steel and Iron Works", now known as National Presto Industries.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Wisconsin, Eau Claire
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Edgar Wolf, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0076.06
label: accession number
content: 1988.0076
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0076.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cooker, pressure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle grip material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 33 cm x 31 cm; 13 in x 12 3/16 in