Pill Dispenser
date: label: date made
content: ca 1871
label: patent date
content: 1871-12-05
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for John Sullivan, “Improvement in Devices for Administering Pills,” U.S. Patent 121,684 (December 5, 1871). Sullivan lived in Thornton, Canada.
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: MG.M-04313
label: catalog number
content: M-04313
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 121,684
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pill Swallowing Device
label: Object Name
content: pill swallowing device, patent model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, tin (lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, tin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 8 1/2 in x 3 1/8 in; 13.335 cm x 21.59 cm x 7.9375 cm