Cork Press
notes: label: Description
content: A cork press was designed to compress corks without splitting them. This one is of the rotary form devised by Charles L. Lochman (d. 1900), a druggist and commercial photographer in Carlisle, Pa.
label: Description
content: Ref: C. L. Lochman, “Improved Cork-Press,” U.S. Patent 68,093 (Aug. 27, 1867).
label: Description
content: Linda A. Ries, “Looking for Lochman: Researching an Historical Photographer,” in Peter E. Palmquist, ed., Photographers, A Sourcebook for Historical Research (Nevada City, 2000), pp. 141-143.
label: Description
content: Eimer & Amend, Chemical and Metallurgical Laboratory Supplies and Assayer’s Materials (New York, 1920), p. 179.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of George Washington University Department of Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.327257
label: accession number
content: 266153
label: catalog number
content: 327257
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cork Press
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in x 10 1/2 in; 13.97 cm x 8.255 cm x 26.67 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/16 in x 10 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 13.17625 cm x 26.035 cm x 8.255 cm