Automated Carbonator
name: label: maker
content: Carbonic Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Jacob Baur (1856-1912), an Indiana pharmacist, established the Liquid Carbonator Company in Chicago in 1888. At his death, he was said to have “done more for the soda fountain business than any other man.” One inscription on this carbonator reads “The Liquid / Serial No. 600517 / TYPE 153 / RED DIAMOND CARBONATOR MFD BY Carbonic Corporation Chicago, Ill. U.S.A." Another reads “STARMAY SYPHON MFG. BROOKLYN N.Y. U.S. GAUGE CO.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Soda Fountain Man Dead,” <i>Chicago Tribune</i> (July 21, 1912), p. 5.
label: Description
content: “Liquid Carbonic Grows As New Wants Are Felt,” <i>Chicago Tribune</i> (Nov. 23, 1930), p. A10.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Montgomery Ice Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.330835
label: catalog number
content: 330835
label: accession number
content: 293276
label: serial number
content: 600517
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Automatic Carbonator
label: Object Name
content: tank stainless cover
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 115 cm x 89 cm x 68.5 cm; 45 1/4 in x 35 1/16 in x 26 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: weight: 23 cm x 9 cm; 9 1/16 in x 3 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: automatic carbonator: 40 in x 36 in x 32 in; 101.6 cm x 91.44 cm x 81.28 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: tank stainless cover: 8 in x 3 1/4 in; 20.32 cm x 8.255 cm